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fact that there was no complete confidence in the elected soldiers' organizations, no full realization of the principle of election of officers by the soldiers themselves, enabled the Kornilovs, Kaledins and counter-revolutionary officers to be at the head of the army. This is a fact. And whoever does not wantonly, shut his eyes cannot help seeing that after the Kornilov affair the Kerensky, government left everything as it was,—that in reality it restored Kornilov rule. The appointment of Alexeiev, the «pact» with the Klembovskis, Gagarins, Bagrattions and other Kornilov followers, the kindly, treatment accorded to the Kornilovs and Kaledins—all this shows how Kerensky was restoring the Kornilov rule.
Experience teaches that there is no middle course possible. Either all power tot he Soviets and complete democratization of the army, or Kornilov.
And the history; of Tchernov? Wasn't the greatest enthusiasm aroused among the peasants by any step, however small, toward the real satisfaction of their needs,—every step which attested confidence in them, and in their mass organizations and mass actions? But for four months Tchernov was compelled again and again to «bargain» with the Cadets and the bureaucrats, who with their everlasting protractions and underhanded tactics finally forced him to leave without having accomlished anything. The landlords and capitalists «having won the game»
