Anarchy reigns in the capital. The
government is paralyzed. The transport of provisions and fuel is
completely disorganized. General dissatisfaction is growing.
Irregular rifle-firing is occurring in the streets. It is
necessary to charge immediately some person enjoying the
confidence of the people to form a new government. It is
impossible to linger. Any delay means death. Let us pray to God
that the responsibility in this hour will not fall upon a crowned
head.
RODZIANKO.
The Duma waited in vain that night for an answer from the Czar. The
bourgeois elements in the Duma were terrified. Only the leaders of the
different Socialist groups appeared to possess any idea of providing the
revolutionary movement with proper direction. While the leaders of the
bourgeois groups were proclaiming their conviction that the Revolution
would be crushed in a few hours by the tens of thousands of troops in
Petrograd who had not yet rebelled, the Socialist leaders were busy
preparing plans to carry on the struggle. Even those Social Democrats who
for various reasons had most earnestly tried to avert the Revolution gave
themselves with whole-hearted enthusiasm to the task of organizing the
revolutionary forces.
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