The Provisional
Government issues a declaration promising to summon a Constituent Assembly and
to carry the war through to victory. Trotsky observes that neither promise meant
want it seemed to mean, nor indeed anything at all. The Provisional Government
hadn’t summoned the Constituent Assembly months later when the October
Revolution overtook it. The promise about the war was addressed more to Britain
and France than to the people of Russia; the Provisional Government wanted
business as usual with its allies of the Entente.
The Soviet voted
to appoint commissars to each regiment of the army. The soldiers were
gravitating towards the view that they would fight to defend the revolution, but
refuse to take the offensive. The defensist position was also that of a
majority of the Soviet, but not necessarily of the Bolsheviks.
From Switzerland,
Lenin cabled the Petrograd Bolsheviks advice on tactics. His “Letters
from Afar,”
opposing accommodation with the Provisional Government, began to appear in Pravda during this time.
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