Abstract
The bolshevik seizure of power and the resolution of the Congress of Soviets still left the question of government undecided. By 8 November the position of the Bolsheviks in the Congress was further consolidated. The Left Socialist Revolutionaries, whose support of the rising had been somewhat hesitant, and who were strongly in favour of a coalition of all socialist parties, were finally won over to the bolshevik side by the bolshevik decision to adopt and to pass through the Congress their land decree. This complicated decree abolished private ownership for ever and re-distributed the land for the peasants’ use in accordance with a formula designed to secure to all an adequate standard of living. A left socialist revolutionary measure in all its detail,1 the decree ran counter to accepted bolshevik doctrines, in that it recognized that land would be held in usufruct for cultivation by individual peasants, and not as nationalized property by communal or collective bodies. But tactics demanded that the Bolsheviks should not appear to be taking power in complete isolation, and the support of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries was therefore essential to Lenin.2
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