ABSTRACT
In the eight months between the "February" and "October" Revolutions Russia jumped two centuries of political history. Lenin's hardest struggle in bringing about the "October" Revolution was inside his own party. A multitude of threads formed the tangle of issues out of which the crisis was developing in October 1917. The army might have supported the Revolution, but it would not have been in the condition in which March 1917 found it. The Revolution would probably have been, what Marxian theory indicated it should be, a bourgeois revolution. The facts of minority rule, of peasant hostility, and of the use of force against others than the bourgeoisie, were explained by the survival of bourgeois ideology and counter-revolutionary propaganda among the masses, who were thus unable to realize what they really wanted. The chief weakness of the Social-Revolutionaries lay in the fact that they hesitated to adopt the methods for which they condemned the Bolsheviks.
