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
A trenchant sense of culture, discipline and consciousness, of outright irreconcilability with the bourgeoisie
In a portent to which they did not pay adequate attention, police reported that watching soldiers cheered the workers’ red banners
