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Both Czarist Russia and The Soviet Union lost their legitimacy and we're overtaken by the eruption of flash points that went country wide very quickly. Once the regime was seen as having a crack in the veneer then all of the pent up frustration explodes nationwide.
In 1905 a single isolated incident showed the country that the Czar was fallible. The Czar lost absolute rule, a people's Duma took over legislative control and ten years later Imperial Russia collapsed with hardly a shot fired.
At the end of the SU the elimination of the Berlin Wall showed the vulnerabilities of the central government and spontaneous public demonstrations brought down the government.
What triggered the first Russian Revolution of 1905?
The mutiny of a single ship, the Potemkin.
Why did they mutiny? Russia refused negotiations with Japan and Japan attacked Russia. Russia moved it's most experienced officers to the war in the Pacific. After Russia began losing key battles morale in the ships in the west plummetted.
What was the last straw on Potemkin?
The morning Borscht had maggots. The ship mutinied and went to Romania and nationwide strikes erupted.
I have witnessed a half dozen coups and it doesn't take much in a country where power goes from top to bottom to trigger an eruption. The most important person in maintaining stability in Russia tomorrow morning is the mid level officers who commands the loyalty of the tanks kept in the barracks around Moscow. Once the tanks roll in the capital there is almost no turning back. You can bet that officer is a personal favorite of Putin and will never see action in Ukraine.
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