The Left SR Revolt: When Lenin's Allies Turned Enemy

In July 1918, just months after the Bolsheviks seized power, their closest political allies—the Left Socialist Revolutionaries—turned against them. This episode dives into the Left SR uprising: the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, the seizure of the Cheka headquarters, and the bitter street fighting in Moscow that nearly toppled Lenin’s government. We explore the ideological rift over the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the role of figures like Maria Spiridonova and Dmitry Popov, and how the Bolsheviks crushed the revolt, ending any pretense of coalition government. The aftermath sealed one-party rule and intensified the Red Terror. A pivotal but often forgotten moment in the Russian Revolution.

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