The Union of the
Twelve Cossack Armies passes a resolution against removing Kornilov from
command. The League of Cavaliers of St. George passed a similar resolution
during this time, one that included the threat of union with the Cossacks.
On
the same day a letter appeared in the party paper of the Social Revolutionaries
detailing the insults and abuses, including arbitrary executions, of the
junkers (army officers drawn from the rural aristocracy and
military preparatory academies) at and behind the
front. All three incidents reflect the mobilization of the military forces of
the counter-revolution.
Meanwhile the narrow
composition of the Bolshevik Central Committee selected the party’s Secretariat
from its membership. And
before the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, Kamenev advocated attendance at the Stockholm
Conference. But the previous April, considering it an instrument of imperialism
and not internationalism, the
Bolshevik party conference had voted against participation. Though Kamenev
stated he was speaking only for himself, this was nevertheless considered a
breach of party discipline. Lenin’s
response came from exile in Finland about ten days later, strongly
insisting that Kamenev had no right to speak for himself and in contradiction
to the party’s democratically determined position.
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