A young American diplomat, James Houghteling, enthusiastically anticipates the outcome of the protests in Russia, after the formation of a Provisional Duma Committee to assume power from the disintegrating czarist government.
March 12, 1917 – With the Duma, the entire Petrograd garrison and the people working together, this should be a real revolution.
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