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The new rulers of Russia understood that to control something as complex as the navy it was essential — at least in the short term — to make use of some experienced senior officers. The first choice was none other than Kerensky’s last Navy Minister, Admiral Verderevsky, who was regarded as a liberal. The admiral had been arrested at the Winter Palace, but on 27 October he was released from prison and returned to his duties. Verderevsky probably co-operated because he thought, like many others, that Soviet power would be very short-lived, but he resigned on 4 November rather than accept the Soviet-appointed Captain Ivanov as Assistant Minister.1
What was the people’s blood shed for if not for elected commanders? Seaman 2nd Cl. Petr Skurikhin in Tsentrobalt, 18 February 1918
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V. E. Egor’ev, ‘Evgennyi Andrcevich Berens (Nekrolog)’, Morskoi sbornik, 1928, no. 4, 3–7
V. V. Petrash, ‘E. A. Berens’, Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal, 1966, no. 11, loaf; Moriak, no. 9 (19.viii.17), 204;
N. N., ‘Organizatsionnoe postroenie Krasnogo flota’, Morskoi sbornik, 1923, no. 1, 10; Dekrety Sovetskoi vlasti, vol. 1, 361–3.
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Mawdsley, E. (1978). The Red Fleet: Organisation after October. In: The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet. Studies in Russian and East European History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03759-9_9
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