Executive Committee that the leading Cadets were, indeed, demoralized by
doctrinairism and even by counter-revolutionism, but that in the
provinces there were still many bourgeois elements which could still go
hand in hand with the revolutionary democrats, and that in order to make
sure of their co-operation it was necessary to attract representatives
of the bourgeoisie into the membership of the new ministry. Dan already
entertained hopes of a radical-democratic party to be hastily built up,
at the time, by a few pro-democratic politicians. The report that the
coalition government had been broken up, only to be replaced by a new
coalition, spread rapidly through Petrograd and provoked a storm of
indignation among the workingmen and soldiers everywhere. Thus the
events of July 3rd-5th were produced.



THE JULY DAYS

Already during the session of the Executive Committee we were informed
by telephone that a regiment of machine-gunners was making ready for
attack. By telephone, too, we adopted measures to check these
preparations, but the ferment was working among the people.
Representatives of military units that had been disciplined for
insubordination brought alarming news from the front, of repressions
which aroused the garrison. Among the Petrograd workingmen the
displeasure with the official leaders was intensified also by the fact
that Tseretelli, Dan and Cheidze misrepresented the general views of the
proletariat in their endeavor to prevent the Petrograd Soviet from
becoming the mouthpiece of the new tendencies of the toilers. The
All-Russian Executive Committee, formed in the July Council and
depending upon the more backward provinces, put the Petrograd Soviet