Miliakoff's Declaration of War Aims Were Not Even Policy at All - It Was Just Words

Miliakoff floated the novel argument that russia claiming constantinople did not fall under the category of imperial annexation at all. But when this was published on march 20 seventh, his water down formulations weren't even policy yet. They were just words. The leaders of the soviet read this and determined that they could not let milyakof get away with this no annexation or indemnities policy not actually being policy. For the next two weeks, they exerted pressure on the provisional government to circulate mi ko's march 20 seventh declaration as an official statement of policy. When milakov held out, kerensky leaked to the press that the provisional government was on the verge of making