French Concession

And walked like an assassin through the town,

And looked at men and did not like them,

But trembled if one passed him with a frown.

—
W. H. AUDEN
,
In Time of War:

A Sonnet Sequence with a Verse Commentary

In fact, when the moment came, power had not so much to be seized as to be picked up. It has been said that more people were injured in the making of Eisenstein's great film
October
(1927) than had been hurt during the actual taking of the Winter Palace on 7th November 1917.

—
ERIC HOBSBAWM
,
The Age of Extremes
:

The Short Twentieth Century, 1914–1991