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 viks to the triumphal chariot of the bourgeoisie by a rope, the 19-th of June shackled them with chains.

The resentment of the masses upon the renewal of the war of spoliation naturally grew and grew. On July 3–4 their indignation burst forth in an explosion which the Bolsheviks tried to mitigate, of course attempting to direct it into organized channels.

The Essers and Mensheviks, as the slaves of the bourgeoisie fettered to their masters consented to everything; to the bringing of reactionary troops to Petrograd, the restoration of capital punishment, the disarming of the workmen and of the revolutionary, soldiers—to arrests, persecutions, the suppression of newspapers. The power which the bourgeoisie, inside the Government, could not entirely usurp, which the Soviets refused to take, fell into the hands of a military clique of Bonapartists, who were of course supported by the Cadets and the landlords, by the Black Hundreds and the Capitalists.

Step by step downward. Once on the inclined plane of alliances with the bourgeoisie, the Essers and Mensheviks irretrievably went onward and down to the very bottom. On February 28-th, in the Petrograd Soviet, they had promised the Provisional Government only conditional support. On May 6 they