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...addition to Bialystok, the towns conquered in one day by the Red Armies were Lvov and Stanislavov in southern Poland, Dvinsk in Latvia, and Shavli, an important rail junction in Lithuania. If the Germans had been resisting as stubbornly as a year ago, any one of the five would have been deemed worth weeks of siege...
...Lvov, the greatest rail city of southeastern Poland, was taken by wily, egg-bald Marshal Konev, commanding the First Ukrainian Army in place of Marshal Zhukov, who had gone to Moscow to be Stalin's deputy commander in chief. On the rail line to Cracow, Konev stormed Przemysl and Jaroslav. At Przemsyl he was 180 miles from the Silesian corner of Germany...
This extension of the active front (to 500 miles) put the Nazi in the highly uncomfortable position of a man standing on two chairs which are being slowly pulled apart. The Germans declared that the Red offensive had spread as far south as Tarnopol, opposite Lvov. About this sector, the Russians were mum. But on their long-range goal, they were by no means mum. The Moscow radio blared: "Russian armies are smashing westward, and . . . the game is up. The Germans squealed at our declaration that we were making straight for Berlin, but these were no empty words...
Professor Karpovich was sent to Washington by the provisional government of Russia a few months after the overthrow of the Czar in 1917. Prince Lvov was at the time head of the government with Kerensky under...
...series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery. Between March 8 and March 12 these leaderless disorders reached such a pitch that the Duma found the Tsarist authority had vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core as to topple after four days of disorder in Petrograd. Troops ordered to shoot down...