On February 26, Lenin had approved a secret order to abandon the capital of Russia’s revolution. It was a rich irony. After Kerensky’s Provisional Government had decided to relocate from Petrograd to Moscow for safety in early October 1917, the Bolshevik newspaper Workers’ Path—edited by Stalin—had accused Kerensky of treason for surrendering the capital to the Germans.207 Kerensky had backed down.208 But now—again, just as Lenin’s accusers had long predicted—he had not only handed the Germans everything but was preparing to desert the Russian capital.
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