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AFTER THE UPRISING
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who chained them to the counter-revolution, to the 18th of July when they landed at the bottom.

A new stage opens. The victory of the counter-revolution causes disapointment among the masses in the parties of the Social-Revolutionists and Mensheviki, and opens the way for their accepting the policy of the revolutionary proletariat.