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These concessions did not meet the radical opposition's demands for an
assembly or a republic. The revolutionaries refused to yield; even the
liberals declined to participate in Witte's government. But some moderates
were satisfied, and many workers, interpreting the October Manifesto as a
victory, returned to their jobs. This was enough to break the opposition's
coalition and to weaken the St. Petersburg soviet.
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