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Kerensky’s only sop to the Soviet was the exclusion from his dictatorial Directory of any Kadets

‘Without firing a single shot we were victorious,’ Kerensky wrote, ten years later. The ‘we’ was breathtakingly tendentious.

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

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.