Word: lvov
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...which the exiled Lenin fervently opposed, that finally brought him to the threshold of victory. Battered by German triumphs, disheartened by bread riots and other signs of popular hostility, Czar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917 and handed over power to a provisional government headed by the conservative Prince Lvov. Lenin passionately argued that the time for revolution...
When rioting broke out in July, Prince Lvov banned the Bolsheviks (who grew fourfold, to hundreds of thousands, in 1917), sent Lenin into hiding and % arrested Trotsky (newly arrived from New York City and newly allied with Lenin). Lvov then resigned in favor of his War Minister, Alexander Kerensky, who called in troops to maintain order in the capital and shut down Bolshevik newspapers. Trotsky, out of jail again, mobilized Red Guards to defend the Petrograd soviet, which he now headed. The government troops would not fight. Lenin called for an armed uprising. Almost without opposition, the Bolsheviks seized government...