Moscow State Conference

144 of July 27, 1917, in which the purpose of the meeting was defined as the unity of state power with all organized forces of the country in view of the exclusivity of the events experienced.

The main events of the Conference were the speeches of Alexander Kerensky, Nikolai Chkheidze, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Lavr Kornilov, Alexei Kaledin.

In particular, General Aleksey Kaledin, delegated to the Conference from the Cossacks, noted that in a terrible hour of difficult trials at the front and in the rear, from complete political and economic collapse and ruin, from destruction a country can only be saved by really firm power, not connected by narrow-party group interests, free from the need, after every step, to look at all kinds of committees and councils, and aware of the fact that the source of sovereign state power is the will of the whole people, and not an individual parties or groups.

Alexander Kerensky, summing up the meeting, said that its significance was that representatives of all classes, parties and nationalities of Russia openly expressed their opinion on the measures that are needed to save the state; a greater understanding has been reached in society; the interim government will try to implement all the proposals aimed at reconciliation and unification of the country; the government proceeds from the fact that the conference spoke in favor of continuing the war, maintaining loyalty to the allies, in connection with which the most important are the issues of strengthening the army, as well as the revival and strengthening of financial and economic life.

Some of the Moscow workers, organized by revolutionary political forces, in connection with the Conference, declared a one-day general strike on the day of its beginning, in which more than 400 thousand people took part.