'The countryside is falling into chaos, with robberies and arson every day, while you sit doing nothing in your comfortable Petersburg office,' one Tambov squire wrote to him in April. 'Your local committees are powerless to do anything, and even encourage the theft of property. The police are asleep while the peasants rob and burn. The old government knew better how to deal with this peasant scum which you call "the people."

Tambov Squire to Prince Lvov, April 1917 ^[1]

 

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^[1] Source: Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy (1996) - http://waggish.org/2009/12/29/russian-revolution-quotes

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