The Kiev Soviet
joins its comrades of the Northern Regional Conference in declaring the coming
Congress of Soviets “the sovereign organ of power.” On the following day, a
regional conference of soviets in Minsk demanded that the Congress not be
postponed. The Urals soviets did the same a few days after that.
On the other
hand, Kalinin, though in favor of
insurrection, spoke in the Petrograd Soviet as if it could and should be
delayed indefinitely. Many party leaders in Moscow and elsewhere shared this
attitude. Yet the party rank and file largely remained to the left of these
leaders, supporting Lenin’s summons to insurrection.
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