The Cornelof Affair

i'm not sure i've actually seen a dictatorship held with such a narrow base of power. In the first days of september 19 17, kerensky was all powerful, at lea on paper. But it left him exactly nowhere. Each for their own reasons, neither the left nor the right now trusted him. The officer corps of the army hated kerensky for betraying korneilov. The rank and file of the military hated him for conspiring with kornilov. He could not survive until thet assembly in november.