The Moscow Uprising of December 19th

After ten days of fighting, a thousand muscovites lay dead. Vitta himself said the moscow uprising was the moment he lost all his influence with the czar. The government pursued violent, punitive measures to end the days of freedom. Cities and districts that had remained unruly were as likely to meet soldiers as candidates for office. And this would be the soil within which the very fragile, green shoots of constitutional government in russia would attempt to grow.