In Rabochy Put (Worker’s Way), a successor
to the shuttered Pravda, Lenin writes
of an opening for the proletarian revolution created by the defeat of Kornilov’s
insurrection. He argued in “On
Compromises” that if the Soviet were to reject proposals for coalition with
the Cadets in the government, the way would be open for an all-socialist
government incorporating the system of soviets.
He described the
compromise this way: “The compromise on our part is
our return to the pre-July demand of all power to the Soviets and a government
of [Social Revolutionaries] and Mensheviks responsible to the Soviets.” And in
return: “The Mensheviks and S.R.s, being the government bloc, would then agree …
to form a government wholly and exclusively responsible to the Soviets, the
latter taking over all power locally as well.”
Of course, as we’ll see, the right-socialists never opened
this window.
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