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 which seeks neither to arrest nor to exploit, to dam or to deepen the Revolution, but to allow it to develop normally and safely to the full extent of its potentialities, political and social, without endangering the stability of national life or compromising the gains that the Revolution has won. It is this central revolutionary force which is now in control of Russia and the most powerful force in its Government. The counter-revolution was a natural outcome of the social character of the Revolution. It should always be borne in mind that the Revolution is not merely a political Revolution, nor is it the social Revolution as conceived by a minority of Russian Socialists—but it is certainly in great measure a social Revolution. There can be no understanding of Russia to-day without recognition of this fact. Naturally it is a fact that is unpalatable to the capitalist and agrarian interests who constitute the counter-revolutionary force.

Now, in fact, the counter-revolution is very real. It has been there since the very