Red wheel. Volume 9 - Knot IV: April of the seventeenth. Book 1. Solzhenitsyn A.I.

Easter 1917. - The meeting of Lenin at the Finland Station. - “Sevastopol miracle” Kolchak. - The success of Kerensky’s public speeches. - Many episodes of "population" in the army and in the rear. - On April 20, Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik sample of forces. Shooting on the streets is unarmed. Slogans: “Down with Milyukov!”, “Down with the Provisional Government!” In the morning of April 21 - a impulse of unarmed volunteers from the intelligentsia to go out onto the streets, to protect power “from the Red Guard”; Those - shoot. The wounded, killed, noisy disputes and fights on the streets. An alarming negotiations between members of the executive committee and the Provisional Government - how to repay the conflict, but it does not subside all day. - The unforeseen resistance to the Bolsheviks of the Petrograd educated public - changed Lenin's plans: the civil war for now, postpone it!