November 1917--Bolshevik Seizure of Power
British Major-General Alfred W. F. Knox's November eye-witness account of the collapse of military support for Kerenski on the eve of the Bolshevik takeover
"About 1,000 women [soldiers] marched past the [British] Embassy this morning on their way to be inspected by Kerenski on the Palace Square. They made the best show of any soldiers I have seen since the Revolution, but it gave me a lump in the throat to see them, and the utter swine of 'men' soldiers jeering them."
Knox shortly later observed that the Cossack cavalry "expressed their unwillingness to support Kerenski, who had called them 'counter-revolutionaries' and their chosen leader, Kornilov, a 'traitor.' (705)
Overview of Lenin Flash Video Presentation
(Selected images in Lenin Flash Video from http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/U8150/communism.html)
(New York Public Library)