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Overwhelmed by anarchy, almost the entire country believed that a man of ruthlessness and courage could succeed. And from this perspective, Lavr Kornilov was regarded as quite different from Kerensky, and it was widely held that he could become the Russian Napoleon. Sir Bruce Lockhart portrayed him in this way: ‘General Kornilov, though small in stature with a beard and moustache which gave him some resemblance to the Tsar, was a giant in courage and a first-class commander in the field with all the virtues and limitations which the epithet implies. He was a stern disciplinarian who looked after his men well and was worshipped by them’.1
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6 Kornilov as a Real Napoleon (August 1917)
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Shlapentokh, D. (1999). Kornilov as a Real Napoleon (August 1917). In: The Counter-Revolution in Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372160_8
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