Communism -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
The full-powered Congress of Peasants’ Soviets met about a week later,
and continued for several weeks. Its history is merely an expanded
version of the history of the “Extraordinary Conference.” At first the
great majority of the delegates were hostile to the Soviet Government,
and supported the reactionary wing. Several days later the assembly was
supporting the moderates with Tchernov. And several days after that the
vast majority of the Congress were voting for the faction of Maria
Spiridonova, and sending their representatives into the _Tsay-ee-kah_
at Smolny…. The Right Wing then walked out of the Congress and called a
Congress of its own, which went on, dwindling from day to day, until it
finally dissolved….
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