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| | Leon Trotsky: 1917— After the July Days, What Next? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | His speech was a mass of generalities, attacks upon the Right and Left alternating with concessions to the Right and Left; and his statement, “We are determined that Russia shall be ranked among the World Powers”, evoked boisterous applause. |
 | | Minister of Finance Nekrasov made an attack upon the Revolution’s evil influence upon the finances, declaring that the money being expended by the Food Supply Committees and for wage increases was ruining the state and country, and should be stopped. |
 | | General Kornilov, Commander-in-Chief of the armies, emphasized the disintegration of the army, and urged drastic measures to restore discipline, among these measures being the practical abolition of the soldiers’ committees. |
| www.marxists.org /archive/trotsky/works/1917/julydays.htm (16445 words) |
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