ABSTRACT
When the news of the October Manifesto was received in Geneva, the reactions of the emigre Socialist Revolutionaries there were conflicting. Some believed it meant the coming of liberty to Russia, others not. When the chairman of the St. Petersburg Soviet, Khrustaliov, was arrested, Chernov proposed to the other delegates that each measure of repression be answered by a terrorist act. The orthodox doctrinal position of Chernov and the old party leaders, was by no means acceptable to all of the Congress. Both the Maximalist Left and the Popular-Socialist Right were outspoken in their criticism. The Socialist Revolutionary party was deeply disturbed by the appearance in the new legislature of a large-sized bloc of peasant deputies which followed the Kadet lead instead of their own. When the Duma was dissolved, the Socialist Revolutionaries, like the rest of the opposition, hoped for some sort of popular rising.
