There is no such precedent in late-imperial, Soviet and contemporary history: The nearest parallels would be the revolutionary events of 1905 and 1917 that followed military disasters. In 1905, Czar Nicholas II clung on to power by agreeing to limited democratic reforms. And, in February 1917, his overthrow led first to the formation of a liberal provisional government, with Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin only seizing power that October.
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