| | Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution - Part 6, Section 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Echoing the central demand of the counter-revolution, Kornilov insisted on the re-introduction of the death penalty at the front, where, in practice, he had already introduced it by ordering deserters to be shot. |
 | | The tactics of the Bolsheviks in opposing the Kornilov rising was the fundamental turning-point, winning colossal prestige for the Bolsheviks as the most determined and energetic fighters against the counter-revolution, and once and for all laying to rest the slanders about counter-revolutionaries and German agents. |
 | | The memory of Kornilovs revolt was still vivid in the minds of the workers and soldiers and the threat of counter-revolution provoked a rapid polarisation and radicalisation in the Soviets. |
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