To forestall a
Bolshevik plan to denounce the State Conference as counter-revolutionary and
then walk out, the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets passes a
resolution effectively limiting the party’s access to the floor. So the
Bolsheviks turned in their conference credentials.
Then the Moscow
Soviet voted, pretty narrowly, against a calling a general strike to welcome the
conference delegates. The Bolsheviks took counsel with Menshevik and Social
Revolutionary workers in the soviet who had voted for the strike, and leaders
of the trade unions. Together they decided upon a one-day protest strike, in
preference to a demonstration that might have made targets of the marchers as
during the July Days in Petrograd.
Another secret
committee consisting of two Bolsheviks, two Mensheviks, and two Social
Revolutionaries made arrangements to prevent the Cavaliers of St. George, with their
allies among officers and junkers, from forming a cordon along the line of Kornilov’s
expected procession through the city.
Meanwhile,
Kornilov sent four divisions of cavalry towards Petrograd, possibly at Kerensky’s
request, and a regiment of Cossacks to Moscow. This was a stratagem of counter-revolution rather than of
the war against Germany.
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