The Provisional
Government next asks Grand Duke Michael to abdicate. He complies. The
revolution was announced to the world by radio.
The Bolshevik
leadership on the scene, Molotov and self-educated workers Schliapnikov and
Zalutsky formulated the party’s response to the measures of the bourgeois
liberal Provisional Government. There were still left and right Bolsheviks, with
“defensists,” who wanted to continue the war, on the right.
Among the left
Bolsheviks were the workers of the Vyborg district. They wanted to depose the
Provisional Government in favor of the Soviet. But this precariously balanced
“dual government,” as Trotsky calls it, was held together by mutual suspicions
in the weeks and months that followed.
Meanwhile
“compromisers” on the Executive Committee of the Soviet issued Order No. 2,
intended to annul Order No. 1 by limiting it to the Petrograd garrison. Order
No. 2 was ineffective, being ignored by the revolutionary soldiery.
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