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Ivan Zemtsov

@zemtsovivan

Privy councilor, official for special assignments at the Chancery of Interior Minister A. D. Protopopov.
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There is a full-fledged economic crisis in the country. The daily bread ration in Petrograd has been axed to just 150 grams!

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The Bolsheviks exploit these sentiments to the full. Trotsky as the new foreign minister issues an appeal to all belligerent powers

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Aware of the Entente’s desire to defeat Germany and Austria-Hungary, Trotsky invites Berlin to negotiate a separate peace deal

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Lenin dismisses Dukhonin. The general is replaced by the sub-officer Nikolai Krylenko, a close associate of the Soviet leader

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The Bolsheviks have issued a new decree. This time it is about social estates and civil ranks. They have abolished all of them

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There are no noblemen, no commoners and of course no princes or counts anymore in Russia. From now on there are only Russian citizens…

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He also remarked, however, that it would be foolish of the Allies to push Russia into signing a peace accord only with Germany

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The majority of deputies are either Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, whose leaders are about to join the Bolshevik government, or Bolsheviks. After the Bolsheviks’ Decree on Land that granted all the land to the peasants, the latter are ardent supporters of the radicals #1917LIVE