"Nicholas II is resigned 

 to his fate and has asked 

 the help of the Provisional 

 Government. I, as Minis- 

 ter of Justice, am holding 

 his fate, as well as that of 

 his dynasty, in my hands: 

 but our marvelous revolu- 

 tion was almost bloodless, 

 and I do not want to be the 

 Marat of the Russian revo- 

 lution. There should be no 

 place for vengeance." 



ADDRESS TO THE ARMY, CON- 

 CERNING THE PROBLEMS 

 OF THE PROVISIONAL 



GOVERNMENT 



Soon after the organi- 

 zation of the Provisional 

 Government, Petrograd be- 

 came the Mecca for nu- 

 merous delegations sent 

 from the front by the vari- 

 ous parts of the army. The 

 delegates were sent to the 

 capital with a view of as- 

 certaining the program of 

 the Provisional Govern- 

 ment, as well as the gov- 

 ernment's relation to the 

 Council of Workmen and 

 Soldiers. One of these 

 delegations Kerensky ad- 

 dressed as follows : 



"The greatest problem 

 facing the Provisional Gov- 

 ernment at this time is to 

 uphold the unanimity of 

 mind and action of the 

 Russian nation at this the 

 crucial hour of our lives. 

 At the present moment 

 nothing threatens the solu- 

 tion of the problem. Be- 

 tween the Provisional Gov- 

 ernment on the one hand 

 and the Council of Soldiers 

 and Workmen on the other, 

 there is today full una- 

 ° Si nimity both as regards prob- 

 t >? lems and aims. If there is 

 -=*i_: some disagreement, it only 

 -__^ > relates to questions of tact, 

 jf; 'r^l to questions of what can be 

 'z~~= done today and what may 

 ~ p - be postponed until tomor- 



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