Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

270CONFERENCE OF REGIMENTAL DELEGATESOF THE PETROGRAD GARRISONOCTOBER 29 (NOVEMBER 11), 1917 110NEWSPAPER REPORT1REPORT ON THE CURRENT SITUATIONThe political situation does not warrant long speeches.The political question is now merging with the militaryquestion. It is all too clear that Kerensky has recruited theKornilovites, and they are his only support. In Moscow theyhave seized the Kremlin, but they have no control over thesuburbs, where the workers and the poor in general live. Thereis no one to back Kerensky at the front. Even those who areof two minds, like the members of the Railwaymen’s Union,are speaking in favour of the Decrees on Peace and on Land.The vast majority of workers, soldiers and peasants wanta policy of peace.This is not a Bolshevik policy. In no sense is it a “party”policy. It is the policy of the workers, soldiers and peasants,that is, the majority of the people. Nor are we implementinga Bolshevik programme on the land question, because there,too, our programme has been taken bodily from peasantmandates.It is not our fault that the Socialist-Revolutionariesand the Mensheviks have gone. They were invited to sharepolitical power, but they want to sit on the fence until thefight against Kerensky is over.We asked everyone to take part in the government. TheLeft Socialist-Revolutionaries 111 said they wanted to supportthe Soviet Government’s policy. They did not even darevoice disagreement with the new government’s programme.People in the provinces give credence to papers likeDyelo Naroda. Here everyone knows that the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks went because they were