Lenin's Takeover of Viborg

At 2am, Trotsky checks his watch and says it has begun. The takeover is not the wild affair you might expect. Most of the city sleeps blissfully unaware. By morning, there will be just six dead and no more than 20 injured. After some toing and froing, they decide on what they will call their new government. Munificent as ever, Lenin offers the premiership to Trotsky. As a Jew, Trotsky is painfully aware of the deep vein of anti-Semitism that runs through Russian society. It must be Lenin, he says. Only Lenin. At 9pm, word reaches Lenin that the government plans to raise all the bridges across the river. If they do that