The growth of the influence and
power of the Maximalists became indubitable and had gained an
irresistable momentum. The Maximalists had warned against the coalition,
against the attack of the 18th of July, they predicted the Korniloff
affair--the masses of the people became convinced by experience that we
were right. During the most terrifying moments of the Korniloff
conspiracy, when the Caucasian division was approaching Petrograd, the
Petrograd Soviet was arming the workingmen with the extorted consent of
the authorities. Army divisions which had been brought up against us had
long since achieved their successful rebirth in the stimulating
atmosphere of Petrograd and were now altogether on our side. The
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.
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