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N leaving Petrograd for the front we were conscious of a certain apprehension and as great a curiosity as we had felt when we first set foot in revolutionary Russia. Petrograd had given us the impression that although it was there in the capital that the problems of the Russian Revolution were put, since May 1917 it had ceased to be the place where these problems were solved. The capital had become merely the echo of all that was happening throughout the country, and especially on the front. Thus it was on the armies at the front, and on the material and especially the moral possibility of an offensive that depended the maintenance of the Provisional Govern-