November 1917, "At 1 a.m. on November 8th, a shabbily dressed man got to his feet and rose to speak. He took away a handkerchief from his face and was instantly recognised as Lenin. He told those in the Smolny Institute that
- he was forming a government of Bolsheviks and
"His(Lenin's) middle class background was not held against him as he had been in prison for his beliefs and he was seen by the workers as the man to lead them."...(2nd parag.)
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