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REVOLUTION [chap. xxiv.
(there were many such!)—also relinquished his duties
as head of the Petrograd garrison. Prince Lvoff
remained as Prime Minister a little while longer; but the
real and almost the whole power passed to Kerensky,
who took unto himself as Minister for Foreign Affairs
young M. Terestchenko—up till then Minister of
Finance—and who replaced Miliukoft’s friends by
revolutionary Socialists of renown. As to the President
of the Duma, M. Rodzianko, and a few officials who
with him were supposed to represent the supreme power
—no one mentioned them any more; they had been
tacitly suppressed like the fourth Duma itself. It was a
decisive day which really decided the fate of the
Revolution and with it the fate of Russia. All reasonable
people were filled with dismay.
However, man is so constituted that he always clings
to a hope; this is more especially true of the Russian
intellectual. Now in this case the hope lay in Kerensky’s
personality. Son of a high official at the Board of
Education (at that period the citadel of Russian reaction),
impetuous, excitable, not altogether reliable in private
business, having gone in for revolutionary Socialism
like others go in for Futurism or Cubism, prosecuted
and interned during the first Revolution, an eloquent
member—always pushing himself forward—of the fourth
Duma, where he sat at the head of the Labour
members—this lawyer felt his hour had come when the
Revolution triumphed. Whereas all the other members
of the Duma, even the most advanced ones, had lost
their heads, he, assisted by a few colleagues from the
Socialist revolutionary camp, promptly placed himself
in evidence, harangued the people, harangued the troops
that were occupying the halls and lobbies of the Duma,
caused the former civil and military officials who were
being arrested in the town and whom the emissaries of
the revolutionary party were conducting to the Duma,
to be brought before him, and decided their fate, either
setting them free or ordering them to be transported to
the fortress; in short, he and his friends represented a
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