. The Russian Bolshevik Revolution . > > QJ 2 cc bO C a o ^ ^ s. A. F. Kcrenslv}Prime Minister of the Provisional Government KERENSKY 193 On assuming power, Lenin is said to have statedto the representative of the Matin: You may besure that, whatever may be the vicissitudes of thestruggle, we must always in the end prove thestronger, because boldness is on our side, whereasKerensky— here Lenin shrugged his shouldersdisdainfully—is nobody. He has never done any-thing and he is always vacillating. He was a par-tisan of Kornilov and had him arrested. He was anopponent of Trotsky and he allo
. The Russian Bolshevik Revolution . > > QJ 2 cc bO C a o ^ ^ s. A. F. Kcrenslv}Prime Minister of the Provisional Government KERENSKY 193 On assuming power, Lenin is said to have statedto the representative of the Matin: You may besure that, whatever may be the vicissitudes of thestruggle, we must always in the end prove thestronger, because boldness is on our side, whereasKerensky— here Lenin shrugged his shouldersdisdainfully—is nobody. He has never done any-thing and he is always vacillating. He was a par-tisan of Kornilov and had him arrested. He was anopponent of Trotsky and he allowed him his lib-erty. It is too soon yet to know whether or not thiscontemptuous judgment is just. Already time hasshown that the drawing-room people and the Allieddiplomats and oflScers, who might have held upKerenskys government until the Constituent As-sembly met, but w^ho were all for Kornilov whoseill-starred attempt turned the masses to Bolshevism,made a terrible mistake. It may be that time willshow the same of the workers and soldiers whoabandoned Kerens
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