II. Those representatives of the Council of Workmen's and
Soldiers' Delegates who join the government must, until the
creation of an All-Russian organ of the Council of Workmen's and
Soldiers' Delegates, consider themselves responsible to the
Petrograd Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, and must
pledge themselves to give accounts of all their activities to that
Council.
III. The Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates expresses
its full confidence in the new Provisional Government, and urges
all friends of democracy to give this government active
assistance, which will insure it the full measure of power
necessary for the safety of the Revolution's gains and for its
further development.
If there is any one thing which may be said with certainty concerning the
state of working-class opinion in Russia at that time, two months after the
overthrow of the old regime, it is that the overwhelming majority of the
working-people, both city workers and peasants, supported the policy of the
Mensheviki and the Socialist-Revolutionists--the policy of co-operating
with liberal bourgeois elements to win the war and create a stable
government--as against the policy of the Bolsheviki.
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