Reverted. "Insurgency" is completely improper in this context. Provisional government was something very weak. It was hit from both sides: monarchists and bolsheviks. What bolsheviks did in October was it all respects similar to a palace coup: they simply beheaded the state. Concerning the formal applicability, you are advised to know that before the October there country was in the state of so-called "double power" ("dvoevlastie"): upper echelon was Provisionary Government, local power mostly in the hands of Soviets. And the majority in Soviets were Mensheviks, by the way. And this is a traditionally used term, although criticized. So please stop playing semantic games. mikka (t)