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Korniloff's counter-revolutionary uprising was put down by means of speeches and fraternization. By agitation and well-planned seizure of certain institutions without a fight the Kerensky government was overthrown. The same methods were now being employed by the leaders of the Tsarskoye-Selo, Krasnoye-Selo and the Gatchina Soviets with General Krassnov's Cossacks. But this time they did not work.
July 28 United States war industries board created to supervise expenditures. August 25 Italian Second army breaks through Austrian line on Isonzo front. Aug. 28 President Wilson rejects Pope Benedict's peace plea. September 10 Gen. Korniloff demands control of Russian government. Sept. 11 Russian deputies vote to support Kerensky. Korniloff's generals ordered arrested.
He was moved by receiving Korniloff's portrait with a kind message from the dead hero's family, seeing in the features a confirmation of the ideal which he had formed in his own mind and had tried to convey to others. Many of his comments on current events are preserved in the notes or in the memories of his friends. Sometimes these were characteristically cynical.
But there was no longer any possibility of preserving party unity for long. The former terrorist, Savinkof, took part in Korniloff's conspiracy, was in touching unanimity with the counter-revolutionary circles of Cossack officers and was preparing an onslaught on Petrograd workingmen and soldiers, among whom there were quite a few left S. R.'s.
Everything together produced the impression of a pitiful and impotent creation of an office clerk behind which was concealed the complete capitulation of the petty bourgeois democracy before the professional liberalism which, a month previously, had openly supported Korniloff's attack on the Revolution.
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