Sometimes political confrontation was obviated in a short-lived post-revolutionary burst of class camaraderie
All the generals cursed the ‘bandits’ of the Provisional Government, excoriated their perfidy, railed against them – but, that denunciation done, they admitted they faced a fait accompli.
A constitutional monarchy? The mere insinuation provoked in Nicholas a kind of glazed satori of his own limits.
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
