[eleni121]

Nitpicker.

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Not at all. There is a vast difference between saying it was a Russian manual vs calling it by its correct title. The Russian people suffered most under the Communist regime.

It would be like instead of calling it the US Constitution you called it the constitution of England's North American colony. The czardom of Russia disappeared effectively upon the takeover by the communist Bolsheviks...murdered the czar and his family and millions of Russians too.

Hopefully you see what I mean...

[Kenny Bunk]

The czardom of Russia disappeared effectively upon the takeover by the communist Bolsheviks...murdered the czar

I know you don't mean to, but readers may take your thought to mean that the Communists overthrew the Czar.

They most certainly did not. They took over from the democratically elected Duma, and the government of Prime Minister Kerensky, a true parliamentary democracy. The Czar was already gone.

The Communists had discipline, were absolutely united behind their plan, and they had overwhelming force where they needed it to terrorize their opponents. Had the Russian democrats been able to get their act together and been united, IMHO the Communists would have disappeared in the Russian Civil War, and, in fact, almost did.