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The Petrograd garrison, the Kronstadt sailors and the Red Guard, comprising as a whole the Bolsheviki army, last night defeated Kerensky’s army of 7,000 Cossacks, junkers (students in military schools) and artillery who were attacking the capital.
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See S. P. Melgunov, Bolshevik Seizure of Power (Santa Barbara, Cal., 1972).
(David Soskice, ‘The Last of the Kerensky Government’, Manchester Guardian, 27 December 1917, p. 5)
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Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (1992). John Reed Cables the Call News of the Bolshevik Revolt. In: Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (eds) John Reed and the Russian Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21836-3_10
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