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STALIN, Speeches at Emergency Conference of Petrograd Organization RSDLP Bolsheviks Jul 16-20 1917

STALIN: "Speeches Delivered at an Emergency Conference of the Petrograd Organization of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks)" (Jul 16-20 1917) Source : Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917 Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954 http://www.marxistsfr.org/reference/a... _____________________________________________________________ Stalin spoke at an emergency conference of the Bolsheviks in Petrograd and answered questions regarding the July demonstration. This period of time came to be known as the "July Days". There was a massive demonstration of 500,000 soldiers, workers and peasants in Petrograd which called for All Power to The Soviet. The demonstration was repressed with machine gun fire leaving thousands dead. The Bolsheviks opposed this demonstration because they knew it would be crushed and couldn't achieve the transfer of power to the Soviets. However they still participated in the demonstration because they didn't want to abandon the masses at this crucial time. After the demonstration was crushed, the government blamed the Bolsheviks for having organized it. Lenin was forced into hiding and the Bolshevik newspapers were banned, their offices and printing plants were raided. While Lenin was underground, Stalin was in charge of the Petrograd organization. The July Days left the Bolshevik forces shattered and reduced, but also steeled and united. It served to completely sever the Menshevik-Narodnik-Capitalist government of Kerensky from the masses and exposed its true counter-revolutionary character. In his report Stalin argued that the Bolsheviks needed to demand "Power to the workers" instead of "power to the Soviets" which was their old slogan. This is because in July the Petrograd Soviet had a Menshevik majority and it had started serving the Provisional Government of Kerensky against the workers. However the Bolsheviks started using the slogan "All Power to the Soviets" again in October, but in a new meaning. In October when the Bolsheviks gained a majority in the Soviet, they put the slogan into action and carried out the socialist revolution.