After Trotsky
spins them a little, the regulations drafted by Lazimir and his Military Revolutionary
Committee come before the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet for
approval. Despite Trotsky’s spin, the Mensheviks clearly perceived how useful
the regulations would be to an insurrection. But the powers they gave the
Soviet had ample precedent in the powers previously shared with the Provisional
Government under the dual power scheme.
Another proposal,
for the formation of a Garrison Conference, moved forward at this time. The
conference would represent the soldiers of the Petrograd garrison in the way
the factory committees represented the workers of the factories. It incidentally
also enabled the Bolshevik leadership in the Soviet to better understand the purely
military problems facing an insurrection.
Meanwhile,
Kerensky sent a long letter to his fellow head of state Lloyd George of Great
Britain. He promised that the Provisional Government would continue the war,
hoping and begging for the financial credits necessary to do so.
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