Lenin’s speech
explains and defends the Bolshevik positions on participation in the Coalition
ministry in particular, and the anti-revolutionary tendencies of the dual
government in general. Follow the link to
read the text.
Lenin also at one
point advised the Congress to arrest the big bourgeoisie and keep them in close
confinement until they should reveal their secret deals. Kerensky spoke against
the motion and it did not pass.
A resolution
against the Kronstadt sailors, who had arrested their officers, expelled the
governor appointed by the Provisional Government, and put the local soviet in
charge of the local government (May 26 – May 13), carried the Congress. Trotsky
subsequently drafted, and the sailors agreed to, a declaration that avoided
open conflict. Thereafter some of the sailors became well-traveled apostles of
Bolshevism, a phenomenon Trotsky terms the “Kronstadt Miracle.”
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