This resolve to gain the support of the soldiery at all costs was responsible for the publication of the soviet’sOrder No. 1, which directed the military, among other things, to obey only its orders and not those of the Provisional Government. It ordered that committees of soldiers were ...
Instead of being executed, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian prison labour camp, to be followed by an indefinite term as a soldier. After his return toRussia10 years later, he wrote a novel based on his prison camp experiences,Zapiski iz myortvogo doma(1861–62;The Hou...