Intermission at a French theater, 1915. Women and a girl knit, socks perhaps, for soldiers at the front, as does a Red Cross nurse seated between two sleepy soldiers, one — from an Algerian regiment — visibly wounded. An older man reads the news. Illustrated by A. Guillaume, the postcard is captioned in the languages of the Entente Allies, French, English, and Russian.

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Friday, November 9, 1917

"There has been a big uprising of the Bolsheviki in Petrograd. A telegram has come containing the news that some members of the Provisional Government have been arrested by the rioters and that their so-called 'Socialist Organisation' intends to overthrow the Government and take power into its own hands. It seems that the man Lenin, who, with his accomplice Trotsky, had been worsted in July by Kerensky's supporters, had reappeared and assumed complete control of the Organisation. Will Kerensky prove strong enough to withstand him? If not, a civil war will be inevitable."

Quotation Context

Beginning of the entry for November 9, (October 27, Old Style), 1917 from the diary of Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross, and then in Romania. She greatly admired Alexander Kerensky, who had been Prime Minister and Minister of War for the Provisional Government. He was then attempting to rally troops to retake Petrograd. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were the leaders of the Bolsheviks and the new government the Bolshevik Revolution brought to power. In July, the Bolsheviks and other leftists had failed to meet demonstrators' demands to act where the government would not, particularly in ending the war. In response, the Provisional Government imprisoned Bolsheviks including Trotsky. Lenin went into hiding.

Source

Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, pp. 327–328, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974

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