July days

• 20k sailors from kronstadt armed - radical Bolsheviks - march to tauride

  • Dmeand Soviet take control - Chernov is kidnapped
  • Volatile and violent
• Lenin doesn’t take control but neither divorces from it
• PG know they’re weakeNed - release a letter implying Lenin was in pay of Germans and arrest leadership - discredit - goes into hiding
• Korensky and pg

  • Kadets shift further right and resign with Lvov
  • Korensky pm is eager to appease balance :
  • Disintegrating army - spiralling economy - lose countryside control - lawlessness
• Kornilov affair

  • New commadner of Russian forces
  • Wants to establish military control
  • Koresnky turns to soviet for help - soldiers help soviet
  • Bolshevisks and workers and soldiers on streets - direct city defence - pg gives Bolsheviks weapons
  • kornilov doesn’t make it and Bolsheviks get officers to shoot officers and join Bolsheviks
  • kornilov arrested
• consequences of kornilov affair

  • korensky reputation destroyed
  • pg discredited and soviet
  • generals cant rely on troops
  • officers felt betrayed
  • Bolsheviks back on massive support