Commissar
Savinkov returns to Petrograd with news of his success. The agreed plan was to
publish the law as Kornilov demanded, await the immediately expected Bolshevik
demonstration, and then send in the cavalry to put down the demonstrators and
establish martial law. Under martial law, of course, anything could happen,
including an emergency dictatorship under (one of) the plotters.
Of course, the Social
Revolutionary resolution calling for headquarters to expel members of the
League of Officers was ignored. The League was part of the plot; on the
appointed day, they were to raise an armed fifth column in the streets of
Petrograd.
The date was set
for August 27 (September 9, new style), the six-month anniversary of the
February Revolution.
In another
provocation, the Bolshevik paper Proletarian
was suppressed.
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