Ten Days That Shook the World · Character

Mikhail Tereshchenko

Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government whom Miliukov accuses of being too timid to speak his mind or even think in terms of Russia's greatness.

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Also known as Terestchenko, Mr. Terestchenko

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Assailed from the Left in the Council of the Republic; offers to resign after Skobelev's protest.

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Tereshchenko represents the fading authority of the Provisional Government's diplomatic wing, a man Miliukov contemptuously dismisses as afraid to speak the thought in his mind. His reluctance to match Miliukov's imperial rhetoric reveals the government's drift, unable to articulate a vision that could compete with the Bolsheviks' simple promises. His weakness underscores how the old diplomatic establishment was being swept aside by forces it could neither understand nor control.

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Provisional Government and Counter-Revolutionaries
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Bolshevik and Menshevik Figures
Diverse Revolutionary Participants
Provisional Government and Soviet Leaders

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III: On the Eve
Assailed from the Left in the Council of the Republic; offers to resign after Skobelev's protest.
Terestchenko’s Speech (Resumé)
Delivers a speech defending the Provisional Government's foreign policy, emphasizing alliance with the Allies, secrecy, and opposition to a separate peace.
Miliukov's Speech (Resumé)
Miliukov contemptuously accuses Tereshchenko of being afraid to speak his mind or think in terms of Russia's greatness.

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