Kornilov Affair (aug 27, 1917 – aug 30, 1917)

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Kerensky appointed General Lavr Kornilov to take control of the Russian army. Kornilov did not like revolutionaries and Kerensky hoped Kornilov would help restore order to Russia
Kornilov banned strikes (punishable by death), put railway workers under military control, and made it punishable by death to desert from the army.

Apparently he demanded Petrograd be put under military control and Kerensky refused because he knew the workers would react negatively. He then dismissed Kornilov as commander-in-chief. Kornilov then decided to send troops to march on Petrograd and Kerensky assumed that he was attempting a military takeover.

- Kerensky armed the Red Army / Bolsheviks to defend the capital as he was forced to ask the Petrograd Soviet
- Strengthened the Bolsheviks
- Bolsheviks got much of the recognition for stopping the revolution (Trotsky ordered railway unions be called to prevent the train carrying Kornilov's troops from entering the city and Bolsheviks infiltrated Kornilov's troops and persuaded many to abandon the attack)

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