Korniloff uprising was destined to open definitely the eyes of the army
to the inadmissibility of any continued policy of conciliation with the
bourgeois counter-revolution. Hence it was possible to expect that the
crushing of the Korniloff uprising would prove to be only an
introduction to an immediate aggressive action on the part of the
revolutionary forces under the leadership of our party for the purpose
of seizing sole power. But events unfolded more slowly. With all the
tension of their revolutionary feeling, the masses had become more
cautious after the bitter lesson of the July days, and renounced all
isolated demonstrations, awaiting a direct instruction and direction
from above. And, also, among the leadership of our party there developed
a "watchful-waiting" policy. Under these circumstances, the liquidation
of the Korniloff adventure, irrespective of the profound regrouping of
forces to our advantage, did not bring about any immediate political
changes.



THE CONFLICT WITH THE SOVIETS

In the Petrograd Soviet, the domination of our party was definitely
strengthened from that time on. This was evidenced in dramatic fashion
when the question of the personnel of its presiding body came up. At
that epoch, when the Social-Revolutionists and the Minimalists were
holding sway in the Soviets, they isolated the Maximalists by every
means in their power. They did not admit even one Maximalist into the
membership of the Executive Committee at Petrograd, even when our party
represented at least one-third of all the Soviet members. Afterwards,
when the Petrograd Soviet, by a dwindling majority, passed the
resolution for the transfering of all power into the hands of the