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Response To Sukhanov's February Revolution

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On Saturday, Sukhanov called a meeting with some of his buddies to talk politics but none of that really matters because “as is always the case, the organized Socialist centers were not controlling the popular movement or leading it to any definite political goal”. (page 11) At this time ideas of a Constituent Assembly are not known to masses but merely the socialist parties. At this time rioters rallied around calls for peace, rather than self governance, as that was their processing problem. Sukhanov feels that it was “temporarily necessary to shelve the slogans against the war” in order to bring about a government that would serve the people (page 12). Talking amongst themselves, Menshevik intelligentsia agreed that it was in the people 's favor to bring about a bourgeois government and slowly decrease their activity in the war. However Sukhanov understands that they had no control over the masses who called for an end of the war now (page 15). Sukhanov talks about meeting with his fellows all throughout the February Revolution. …show more content…

He seems so to hold them in high regard because he talks about them quite a bit. Sukhanov understands their influence on the course of events that took place. He states that the February Revolution was really able to develop farther than “disorders” because of shrinking barrier between the people and the authority of the police. Eventually Sukhanov says that “both the cordons and the patrols looked as though they were hoping for organized attacks on themselves and seeking an occasion to surrender” to the roaming armed workers (page 26). On February 26th, a police regiment was ordered to break up a crowd along the

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