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It is just a month since I wrote the first part of this article. Kerensky saw the truth; but he could not gauge the excitation of spirit, the deep trouble of the slow-moving Russian masses. He thought the radical democratic program could be worked out slowly, by means of Constituent Assemblies and such like, after the victorious end of the War which would have made ‘the world safe for democracy’. The idea of Socialism, or a Proletarian State, subsisting in the imperfect capitalist world of today, was to him inconceivable.
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Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (1992). Red Russia: Kerensky, II. In: Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (eds) John Reed and the Russian Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21836-3_12
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