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= ﻿ ﻿Russian Revolution dates during 1917 =


 * July 12: Provinsional Government reintroduces the death penalty for deserting or mutinying soldiers at the battlefront.


 * July 19: Brusilov is replaced as Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front by General Kornilov.

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 * August 25-30: The Kornilov affair. Believing Russia to be at the mercy of the Soviet, right wing hero Kornilov marches to Petrograd to restore 'strong' government and crush the socialists. He has the support of many but not, as he believes, Kerensky, who turns against the coup and denounces the General.