All the News From the Front Lines Was All Bad, Bad, Good

Liberal leaders of the zemstvas now wanted to join together, not attack the czar, but to help him win the war. The political climate back in russia shifted as quickly as a blizzard following a heat wave. And so even if this is one of those cases where the final score didn't exactly reflect how close the game was at times, the political reality back home was that all the news from the front lines was bad and absolutely de stabilizing to the regime.