Prime Minister
Kerensky accedes to the conditions
the Cadets imposed on their participation in a new coalition government. But
then the Cadets made a new one: The government’s declaration of July 21 – July
8 (“democratic commonplaces” according to Trotsky) was unacceptable to them,
and they walked away from the negotiation.
Also on this day,
the socialist-majority Provisional Government issued a decree dissolving the
Finnish Seim (i.e., their parliament), in which left-socialists dominated. They
also issued a threat to punish railroad workers for irregularities in the
operation of the railroads. Further, to commemorate the third anniversary of
the start of the war, the ministers sent a nice note to Russia’s allies in the
Entente, mentioning how the government had just put down an insurrection caused
by German intrigues. All these actions revealed the weakness of the
right-socialist Compromisers in the government during a time when the
counter-revolution was gaining strength.
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