3. _Factory-Shop Committees._ These were spontaneous organisations created in the factories by the workers in their attempt to control industry, taking advantage of the administrative break-down incident upon the Revolution. Their function was by revolutionary action to take over and run the factories. The _Factory-Shop Committees_ also had their All-Russian organisation, with a Central Committee at Petrograd, which co-operated with the Trade Unions. 4. _Dumas._ The word _duma_ means roughly “deliberative body.” The old Imperial Duma, which persisted six months after the Revolution, in a democratised form, died a natural death in September, 1917. The _City Duma_ referred to in this book was the reorganised Municipal Council, often called “Municipal Self-Government.” It was elected by direct and secret ballot, and its only reason for failure to hold the masses during the Bolshevik Revolution was the general decline in influence of all purely _political_ representation in the fact of the growing power of organisations based on _economic_ groups. 5. _Zemstvos._ May be roughly translated “county councils.” Under the Tsar semi-political, semi-social bodies with very little administrative power, developed and controlled largely by intellectual Liberals among the land-owning classes. Their most important function was education and social service among the peasants. During the war the _Zemstvos_ gradually took over the entire feeding and clothing of the Russian Army, as well as the buying from foreign countries, and work among the soldiers generally corresponding to the work of the American Y. M. C. A. at the Front. After the March Revolution the _Zemstvos_ were democratized, with a view to making them the organs of local government in the rural districts. But like the _City Dumas,_ they could not compete with the _Soviets._ 6. _Cooperatives._ These were the workers’ and peasants’ Consumers’ Cooperative societies, which had several million members all over Russia before the Revolution. Founded by Liberals and “moderate” Socialists, the Cooperative movement was not supported by the revolutionary Socialist groups, because it was a substitute for the complete transference of means of production and distribution into the hands of the workers. After the March Revolution the _Cooperatives_ spread rapidly, and were dominated by Populist Socialists, Mensheviki and Socialist Revolutionaries, and acted as a conservative political force until the Bolshevik Revolution. However, it was the _Cooperatives_ which fed Russia when the old structure of commerce and transportation collapsed.