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The Bolsheviks took the hardest line: that the Provisional Government in toto could not be trusted

Troops radicalised or gave up hope or both in the grinding war. They wrote bitter, raging letters now to the country’s leaders. One soldier, Kuchlavok, and his regiment sent Izvestia a long, near-glossolalic sermon of despair that their revolution had been in vain, a deflected apocalypse, catastrop…

had at the start of the war inveigled royal permission to join the army

Long days, warm orgiastic nights. A sybariticism for the end of a world.