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Clearly his government was popular enough that the Bolsheviks were unable to gain power by the ballot box.

That's the upside-down crucifix.

He was very vulnerable as his patron had unsuccessfully rebelled against Emperor Tiberius.

I stand corrected in regards to the Provisional Government.

Their only flaw was quite stupidly continuing to fight a war Russia had by any objective standard already lost.

Read up on the Russian Provisional Government again ... so sad. A genuine flowering of democracy in an autocratic state that was ruthlessly destroyed by totalitarians, who then pretended to be the ones who had overthrown the autocracy in question.

It was a coalition government of moderate socialists and classical liberals.

Personally speaking, the myth that the Bolsheviks deposed the Tsar. The Tsar had already been deposed some months earlier relatively peacefully. What the Bolsheviks did was - facilitated by the German government in a scheme to knock Russia out of WW1 - launch a coup in response to only getting...