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“The government, alas, has no real power; the troops, the railroads, the post, and telegraph are in the hands of the Soviet. The simple fact is that the provisional government exists only so long as the Soviet permits it.”—Minister of War, Aleksandr Guchkov.
Hulton Deutsch
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