It succeeded in part in this, in the measure in which
the confidence of the groups which constituted it in the policy
was not yet exhausted. But a considerable portion of the Soviets,
as well as fractions of other Soviets, fractions composed of the
most devoted and experienced fighters, continued to follow the
only true revolutionary road; to develop the class organization of
the working masses, to direct their intellectual and political
life, to develop the political and social aspects of the
Revolution, to exert, by all the power of the working class
organized into Soviets, the necessary pressure to attain the end
that it proposed. The questions of peace and of war, that of the
organization of production and of food-supply, and that of the
fight for the Constituent Assembly are in the first place. The
policy of adventure of the groups which seized the power is on the
eve of failure. Peace could not be realized by a rupture with the
Allies and an entente with the imperialistic orb of the Central
Powers. By reason of this failure of the policy of the
Commissaires of the People, of the disorganization of production
(which, among other things, has had as a result the creation of
hundreds of thousands of unemployed), by reason of the civil war
kindled in the country and the absence of a power recognized by
the whole people, the Central Powers tend to take hold in the most
cynical fashion of a whole series of western provinces (Poland,
Lithuania, Courland), and to subject the whole country to their
complete economic, if not political, domination.
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