straighten out things from above, encountered insurmountable obstacles,
the greatest of which was the sabotage of the military-technical
employees.

Then we decided to appeal directly to the working class. We stated that
the success of the revolution was most seriously threatened, and that it
was for them--by their energy, initiative, and self-denial--to save and
strengthen the regime of proletarian and peasant government. This
appeal met with tremendous practical success almost immediately.
Thousands of workingmen proceeded toward Kerensky's forces and began
digging trenches. The munition workers manned the cannon, themselves
obtaining ammunition for them from various stores; requisitioned horses;
brought the guns into the necessary positions and adjusted them;
organized a commissary department; procured gasoline, motors,
automobiles; requisitioned provisions and forage; and put the sanitary
trains on a proper footing--created, in short, the entire war machinery,
which we had vainly endeavored to create from above.

When scores of heavy guns reached the lines, the disposition of our
soldiers changed immediately. Under cover of the artillery they were
ready to repulse the Cossacks' attack. In the first lines were the
sailors and Red Guards. A few officers, politically unrelated to us but
sincerely attached to their regiments, accompanied their soldiers to the
lines and directed their operations against Krassnov's Cossacks.



COLLAPSE OF KERENSKY'S ATTEMPT

Meanwhile telegrams spread the report all over the country and abroad