Neither the
leadership of the Progressive Bloc, including the socialist and communist
parties in the Duma, much less that of the Bolsheviks, attempts to lead the
establishment of the revolutionary state. That was left to the bourgeois
liberal parties under Rodzianko, Miliukov, and Kerensky.
The tsar was by
then trying to make his way back into Petrograd, from where the thoroughly
alarmed tsarina was trying to telegraph him. Neither the telegraphs nor the
railways were working for the imperial family by then; they were in the hands
of the workers and the Soviet. The tsarina’s telegrams were never sent; the
tsar was held up at a suburban station and eventually had to return to the
front. The Soviet had also closed down the monarchist press and began to print
its own newspaper Izvestia – “The
News of the Soviet.”
Troops sent earlier
from the front turned back of their own accord. The situation in the capital
was too completely lost for them to restore it.
Even the
Peter and Paul fortress
in the middle of the Neva River, hitherto undisturbed by the insurrection,
offered to surrender. Schlusselberg prison was also taken.
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