The Soviets Leaving Petrograd to the Germans

On october fourth, kerensky and his government unanimously agreed to abandon petrograd and withdraw to the safety of moscow. There was by now a growing consensus among socialists of all stripes that kerensky was actively preparing to sacrifice red petrograd to the germans. The soviets decision to stay or leave petrograd would be entirely their own. Kerensky abandoning petrogar to a german sack was not a painful, but necessary strategy in the face of dire war time emergency," he said.