12 October 1917. Georgi Plekhanov

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Georgi Plekhanov

5, Sofiysky boulevard, Tsarskoe Selo, Russian Republic

If the reader remembers the speech which A.F. Kerensky gave to end the Moscow meeting and compares it with the part of the updated government’s declaration about the war question, then he will have to admit that indeed, ‘the times are changing, and we are stuck in the former.’

In his second Moscow speech, A.F. Kerensky made damning fulminations against those currently speaking ill of the world. The outcome of the recent Petrograd meeting was that the revolutionary democracy seized political power. More precisely, this is the revolutionary chatting, tea-cup intelligentsia, which the most overwhelming portion of the masses follow; and the people do so to some extent thinkingly, but, for the most part, unthinkingly.

Regarding this fact, our supreme leader-in-chief saw himself compelled to remember that even he himself should not ever lose sight of the Zimmervald-Kiental dreams. Evidently, it is also essential to make an assumption about the majority of our ministers who were even part of the government at the time of the Moscow Meeting and who applauded the belligerent remarks of A.F. Kerenskii. Of course, people of a different breed would have acted differently. However, the French say that the most beautiful woman can give only that which she has.

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