in essence Order Number 1 was a severe rebuke to traditional military authority – and it would remain so, as a clarion
basically letting soldiers have more of a say in their plight, which turned out to be a big sticking point in the struggle for power
most on the nascent Soviet commission had an analysis and sense that history was not yet theirs. That in this context there were, must be, limitations to and necessary brakes on their own role, their own power. As yet inchoate, this would be the start of a strange strain of self-limiting politics.
re: Kerensky's speech asking them to accept the power of the Duma Commission
In he came, tense but confident, holding the attention of the room with a fervid speech begging the Soviet to acquiesce to this coalition
Kerensky
What they shared was a certainty that change, a revolution, was necessary, and ineluctable. They were in a new city, in eruption, on Red Monday. The old law was dying, the new not yet decided.
had shot demonstrators, and had spent the night gathered in their barracks in a long session of self-recrimination. Now its men confronted their captain, Lashkevitch, and declared expiatory mutiny. They would not, they told him, shoot again
