ABSTRACT
When the Manifesto was published, the St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers Deputies was only four days old. It had been formed when the political strike was already under way, on the basis of numerical representation of factory workers irrespective of political affiliation, although the Mensheviks had a more or less effective ascendancy. The two factions of Social Democrats, while continuing to differ sharply on tactics, fought together in the autumn strikes, and as a result the two party organizations moved closer to reunion. The urban workers and peasants could and must continue to victory, said the Bolsheviks. Kadet behavior was determined by the economic position of the petty bourgeoisie. Their two-faced wavering between capital and labor, their readiness to take a scrap of paper for a constitution, all showed the Kadets to be not a party but a symptom, not a political force but "a scum" on the waters of revolution. Lenin maintained uncompromising hostility to the Kadet Duma throughout.
