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

80V. I. LENINFurthermore, let us take the army, which in war-timeplays an exceptionally big role in all state affairs. We findthat the army in Finland and the fleet in the Baltic havecompletely parted ways with the government. We havethe testimony of the officer Dubasov, a non-Bolshevik, whospeaks in the name of the whole front and declares in amanner more revolutionary than that of any Bolsheviks thatthe soldiers will not fight any longer. 45 We have governmentalreports stating that the soldiers are in a state of“agitation” and that it is impossible to guarantee the maintenanceof “order” (i.e., participation of these troops in thesuppression of the peasant revolt). We have, finally, thevoting in Moscow, where fourteen thousand out of seventeenthousand soldiers voted for the Bolsheviks.This vote in the elections to the district councils in Moscowis in general one of the most striking symptoms of theprofound change which has taken place in the mood of thewhole nation. It is generally known that Moscow is morepetty-bourgeois than Petrograd. It is a fact frequently corroboratedand indisputable that the Moscow proletariathas an incomparably greater number of connectionswith the countryside, that it has greater sympathy forthe peasant and is closer to the sentiments of thepeasant.In Moscow the vote cast for the Socialist-Revolutionariesand the Mensheviks nevertheless dropped from 70 per centin June to 18 per cent. There can be no doubt that the pettybourgeoisie and the people have turned away from thecoalition. The Cadets have increased their strength from 17to 30 per cent, but they remain a minority, a hopeless minority,despite the fact that they have obviously been joinedby the “Right” Socialist-Revolutionaries, and the “Right”Mensheviks. Russkiye Vedomosti 46 states that the absolutenumber of votes cast for the Cadets fell from 67,000 to 62,000.Only the votes cast for the Bolsheviks increased—from34,000 to 82,000. They received 47 per cent of the totalvote. There can be no shadow of doubt that we, together withthe Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, now have a majority inthe Soviets, in the army, and in the country.Among the symptoms that have not only a symptomatic,but also a very real significance is the fact that the armies