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After going through the article, there seems to be a lack of information of what happened during the event. It simply went from the background to the consequences. It would be very helpful to the article if it went into the specifics of the event, such as what transpired during certain days, and how this was resolved, as the introduction to the article can go into so much detail. I have a few sources that may add to the article:

1. Ukraintsev, N. 1973. "A Document on the Kornilov Affair". Soviet Studies. 25 (2): 283-298. 2. "The Kornilov Affair" Alpha History Accessed October 17, 2017. http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/kornilov-affair/

Another important consequence of the Kornilov affair was the severing of the tie between Kerensky and the military. For although the officer corps, confused about the issues and unwilling to defy the government openly, refused to join in Kornilov's mutiny, it despised Kerensky for his treatment of their commander, the arrest of many prominent generals and his pandering to the left. When the Bolsheviks staged their revolution in October 1917 Kerensky appealed to the military to help defend the government from the insurrection but his appeal fell on deaf ears.

Another result of this event was that despite the officer corps refusal to participate in Kornilov's mutiny, they were angry towards the punishment given to him by Kerensky, as well as his accommodation to the left and his arresting of prominent generals. This would later come back to haunt Kerensky as the military ignored his request to defend the government when the Bolsheviks attacked in the October Revolution in 1917.

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contributions: reworded statement above due to close paraphrasing from original text, and submitted response to overall article with things that could help improve it.

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before:

The affair began with Kerensky requesting that Kornilov move forces loyal to the Provisional Government into Petrograd to counter the threat of the radical (and Soviet-controlled) Petrograd army garrison. Kornilov then marched on Petrograd intent on allegedly 'purging' the Provisional Government of revolutionary elements, possibly with the intention of establishing a military dictatorship. Kerensky countered Kornilov by arming the Bolshevik-influenced Soviets (including arming Leon Trotsky's Red Guards). Desertions within Kornilov's army began after agents of the Bolsheviks infiltrated the army. Railway strikes hindered Kornilov's supplies and communications. Some of the soldiers deserted to the revolutionary forces and others simply went home. No blood was shed, and the army did not enter Petrograd under Kornilov. Kornilov and his closest advisers were imprisoned, and the Bolsheviks permanently armed and empowered.

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While there have been multiple conflicting opinions on the specifics of how this event had come to be was well as how it was carried out, one common fact was that in order to "restore peace in Petrograd," Kornilov had been organizing a force of soldiers in order to move onto Petrograd and eliminate the Soviet. Whether or not Kornilov had done this as a means of imposing a military dictatorship after his success, or was simply acting under Kerensky's orders is not clear, but what is definitive was that Kerensky had no intention of allowing Kornilov enter Petrograd with an army, fearing the former possibility. In an effort to avoid this, on 27 August 1917 (Old Style) Kerensky had sent Kornilov his (Kornilov's) dismissal and an order to return to Petrograd through a telegram. The telegram did not impede Kornilov's progress towards Petrograd as intended, but instead most likely hastened his troop's advance as Kornilov, after reading the message, had come under the assumption that Petrograd had fallen under the control of the Bolsheviks. Over the course of the next few days, as the Provisional government had attempted to come up with a concrete solution in order to avert the oncoming invasion, the Petrograd Soviet has taken measures to defend against Kornilov's advancing troops. One of these measures was the creation of the Committee for Struggle Against Counterrevolution on 28 August 1917 (Old Style). Those participating in the Committee were representatives of the two national soviet executive committees of workers and soldiers and of peasants, the Petrograd Soviet, the General Central Council of Trade Unions, and the Social Revolutionary (S. R.) and Menshevik parties. The most notable members of this Committee were the Bolsheviks, who had a large support base among the lower class, and included Bolshevik organizers like Leon Trotsky, who were previously imprisoned but released at the behest of the Petrograd Soviet in order to assist in the organization of Petrograd's defense. The Soviet had performed several acts such as working with rail worker unions in order to impede Kornilov's army's progress towards Petrograd as well as infiltrating the army for the purpose of sabotage and convincing soldiers within the force to desert, all in an effort to halt and weaken the forces of Kornilov. Within Petrograd, the Soviet, mostly notably the Bolsheviks for reasons that were important later on, were given ammunition and arms in the event that Kornilov's troops could arrive at Petrograd and combat was necessary. However, this would not become necessary as by 30 August 1917 (Old Style), Kornilov's army had lost a large number of soldiers, and without anymore support for Kornilov's movement, the affair had come to a bloodless end.

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