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Primary Sources

(1) Adam B. Ulam, The Bolsheviks(1998)

To Geneva came Father Gapon, the Orthodox priest who had led the masses in their march to the Winter Palace.

There could be no doubt about Gapon's background. He had, with the encouragement and subsidies of the police, organized a workers' union, thus continuing the work of Zubatov. The union had scrupulously excluded Socialists and Jews.

For a while the police could congratulate themselves on their enterprise. Capon seemed to be a born leader inculcating in the growing mass of his followers loyalty to the Tsar and faith and obedience to the Holy Orthodox Church.

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What finally led this obedient tool of the authorities to lead the strike and the procession that triggered off the revolution is still uncertain. His head was obviously turned by his success, his sympathies clearly aroused by the misery of his men.

There is every likelihood that, like many who found themselves at once in the revoluti