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The guards were adamant they could not come in. It seemed as if after their heart-in-mouth journey, the officious defences of their own side might stymie them.

Some districts and representatives remained optimistic – Latsis, as ever, was positively boosterish – but many grew chary.

By the constant threat of reshuffles, he kept his last, etiolated Provisional Government in line

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.