“War was declared, while you slept in your bed.”
This is how the russian revolution went down. Most of the country didn’t even know about it. They just woke up with a new government. In the age of instant news and the internet, that is no longer possible.
Indeed. About 100 “Latvian Rifles” marched into the Duma under Lenin, and declared a revolution. Maybe one radio station in Moscow and a few newspapers, and the communists declared victory. Who could say no?
The Whites, but they lost that civil war.