Bolshevik Central Committee

 

One hundred years ago today, plus three, the Sixth Congress of the Bolshevik party, having been in session for more than a week, proceeded to the last item on its agenda. They elected the Central Committee, with Lenin at its head, that would vote for insurrection come October.

 

Read about it here. Or read the whole chapter on Kerensky’s Government here. Or read the whole story from the beginning by following this link.

 

Bolsheviks Convene

One hundred years ago today, plus three, the Bolsheviks convened a party congress at a time when the party itself was barely legal. They passed a resolution to say Lenin, then in hiding, ought not to turn himself in; and welcomed the Trotskyites, up to then a separate party, into the Bolshevik fold. Meanwhile Kerensky, apparently satisfied that both the right socialists and the bourgeois Cadets considered him “indispensable,” had agreed two days before to form as prime minister the government that became the Second Coalition.

 Read about it here. Or read the whole chapter on Kerensky’s Government here. Or read the whole story from the beginning by following this link.

  

Kerensky Resigns

One hundred years ago today, plus three, Prime Minister Kerensky, possibly annoyed that the right-socialist ministers in his cabinet were not willing to go as far right as he in order to meet the demands of the bourgeois-liberal Cadets, resigned. It’s also possible he was only trying to strengthen his hand against both left and right, and thought resignation was the best way to do it.

Read about it here. Or read the whole chapter on Kerensky’s Government here. Or read the whole story from the beginning by following this link.