The Autocracy had ended in 1905. The Provisional Governor was an author of dysfunctional chaos, with idiotic leadership that destroyed the Russian war effort and nation by such ridiculous things as allowing soldiers to vote on obedience to orders. It was socialist to the core and implemented a comedy society in which there was no civic order, no ability to direct the nation in the war, in which millions of troops were duped into disobeying their officers and then slaughtered like lambs by the Nemetsky. The Kerensky government was doomed from the start by its own socialist conceits and in halting the natural progress of the Russian nation under the Romanovs made possible the Bolshevik tyranny. It is not a mistake that the White Movement rallied around the Romanovs as the martyrs of the Russian nation rather than around the Provisional Government; six months of it was enough to leave the ideas it proposed to expound revealed as a bankrupt joke to the whole world for all time.