British socialist revolutionaries largely repeated Lenin's claims and sided against the rebellion.[1] British radicals were willing to defend the Bolsheviks and their methods against their critics, as Russia represented the fore of socialist revolution.[2]
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As of 1968, Soviet historiography maintained that counter-revolutionary, White Guard, or foreign forces organized the rebellion, though no evidence supports this thesis.[3]
