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

HEROES OF FRAUD AND MISTAKES OF BOLSHEVIKS45The demarcation of classes is progressing. A protest isgrowing in the Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevikparties, a direct split is maturing because the “leaders”have betrayed the interests of the majority of the population.The leaders are relying on the support of a minority,in defiance of the principles of democracy. Fraud is inevitableas far as they are concerned.Kerensky is revealing himself more and more as a Bonapartist.He was considered a Socialist-Revolutionary.Now we know that he is not merely a “March” Socialist-Revolutionary who ran over to them from the Trudoviks“for advertising purposes”. He is an adherent of Breshko-Breshkovskaya, the Socialist-Revolutionary Mrs. Plekhanov,or Mrs. Potresov in their Dyen. The so-called Rightwing of the so-called socialist parties, the Plekhanovs,Breshkovskayas, Potresovs, is where Kerensky belongs;this wing, however, does not differ substantially from theCadets in anything.The Cadets have good reason to praise Kerensky. Hepursues their policies and confers with them and withRodzyanko behind the back of the people; he has been exposedby Chernov and others as conniving with Savinkov,a friend of Kornilov’s. Kerensky is a Kornilovite; by sheeraccident he has had a quarrel with Kornilov himself, buthe remains in the most intimate alliance with other Kornilovites.This is a fact, proved by the revelations aboutSavinkov, by Dyelo Naroda and by the continuation ofthe political game, Kerensky’s “ministerial leapfrog” withthe Kornilovites disguised under the name of the “commercialand industrial class”.Secret pacts with the Kornilov gang, secret hobnobbing(through Tereshchenko and Co.) with the imperialist“Allies”; secret obstruction and sabotage of the ConstituentAssembly; secret deception of the peasants by way of serviceto Rodzyanko, i.e., the landowners (by doubling the priceof bread)—this is what Kerensky is really doing. Thisis his class policy. This is his Bonapartism.To conceal this from the Conference, the Lieberdans,Tseretelis and Chernovs had to resort to a fraud.The Bolshevik participation in this hideous fraud, inthis farce, had the same justification as their participa-