Russians were willing to agree to any change of government, even to a Bolshevik government, in the desperate hope that they might, in some mysterious way, get food and clothes and fuel for the winter. Kerensky, with all his talk and his ideals, had not secured for them the necessities of life. After four months of mastery, he had done nothing but stir the army to a disastrous activity, and feed them on oratory and precepts. The army was against Kerensky for the same reason.

"Bread and Peace"
The 20,000,000 soldiers of Russia are not all soldiers. Putting a peasant or a working man into a soldier's uniform and giving him a gun has not made him a military man; he remains the same peasant or the same working man, with the difference that now he is a peasant or a workingman with a gun. It is this citizen with a gun, whose family is hungry, who has overthrown Kerensky. This citizen who fears that the land may be divided while he is at the front, who knows that his wife and children are going about either poorly clothed or hungry and that their sufferings this winter will be greater than ever before, has turned on Kerensky. The Bolsheviks promise him bread and peace.

Must Have Food
If the Bolsheviks give him and his family bread, he will not worry about peace; he will not seek peace, they do not give him bread, they will go down into the ash heap of past governments in Russia. And who will come after they go? The only answer is: Anyone who can feed them. 