politically, the most active section of the peasantry, yielded a majority for the party of the Bolsheviks and placed it at the helm.
(9) Then, in the course of November and December, the revolution was taking hold of the entire army and the peasantry manifesting itself, first of all, in the dismissal and re-election of the old organization at the top (army committees, provincial and peasant committees, the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russia Council of Peasants' Delegates, etc.), which embodied the obsolete, compromising stage of the revolution, not the proletarian stage, and which were bound to disappear under the pressure of the lower and broader popular masses.
(10) This mighty movement of the exploited masses for the re-organization of the leading organs of their organizations is even now, at the end of December, 1917, not yet at an end, and the Railwaymens' Congress, which still continues, constitutes one of its stages.
(11) Hence, the grouping of the class forces in Russia in the course of their class struggle is taking an essentially different shape in November and December, 1917, from the one reflected in the party lists of candidates to the Constituent Assembly towards the end of October, 1917.
(12) Recent events in the Ukraine, partly also in Finland and Whitie Russia, as well as in the Caucasus, similarly revealed a re-grouping of the class forces, which is taking place in the course of the struggle between the bourgeois nationalism of the Ukrainian Rada, the Finnish Diet, etc., on the one hand, and the Soviet authority, the proletarian and peasant revolution in each of these national republics, on the other.
(13) Lastly, the civil war which the counter-revolutionary rebellion of the Kaledinites has started against the Soviet authority, against the workers' and peasants revolution, has finally brought the class struggle to an
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