ABSTRACT
The Bolsheviks, who were becoming more and more audacious under the leadership of Lenin, were openly in favour of the overthrow of what they considered to be a bourgeois Government, and desired to conclude peace in order to further the interests of the proletariat. On September 28th Kerensky spoke at the Democratic Conference which had assembled at the Alexander Theatre, and, just as in Moscow he had threatened that he would suppress any reactionary counter-revolution, he now warned the Bolsheviks that the Government was strong, and would crush any attempt to oppose it. One fact seemed to have been completely overlooked, namely, that although the Government claimed to be strong it was gradually losing control of the masses, who were being won over by the Bolsheviks, whose promises of peace and immediate concessions to the peasants, workmen, and soldiers were becoming more and more tempting with the growth of disorganization and war weariness.
