The Death of the Bolsheviks

The july days turned out to be exactly what lenin and the bolshevik leaders feared, that it would be a premature failure. Intimidation alone was expected to force the soviet leaders to accept power when intimidation didn't work. Nobody was ready to use brute force. There were no proclamations printed and ready to say, the government is overthrown. Now it wasnt absent violence, and in fact, the july days were the most aggressively violent days of the revolution since february. But in the end, it was all a big puffed up nothing,. It evaporated on the evening of july fourth with a whimper, because nobody was