ABSTRACT
The victory of the counter-revolution would be a formidable catastrophe not only for the people of the Soviet Union, who would be cheated of the fruits of the great revolution, not only for the working class of Soviet Union but also for the labour movement, democracy, and world peace. The revolution of March 1917 brought full democracy to the workers of Soviet Russia, and with it the possibility of developing large Trade Unions. Simultaneously, the Works Committees came into being, both as political and as economic forces. They arose through the democratic revolution and existed as such before the advent of Bolshevism. The Bolsheviks believed that they could achieve the programme of Marxism through the nationalisation of means of production as by the position which they assign to the proletariat, the working class in the State, in industry, and in society. They raised it to the status of the ruling class, and spoke of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
