In a special,
limited session of the Congress and Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, the
Menshevik Tseretilli argues the conspiracy theory that the reactionaries
intended to use the demonstration as a pretext for overthrowing the revolution.
With Tseretilli, this became another pretext, for an attack on the Bolsheviks.
He called for disarming the party, lest it conspire against the revolution from
the left. Bolshevism was to be excised from the revolutionary body.
Trotsky says,
“The hall was stunned into silence.” Kamenev offered to be arrested, so he
could defend himself and his party against Tseretilli’s charge. The Bolsheviks
walked out of the meeting.
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