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[Millican]

Ies and tendencies which the proletariat condemned. He pointed out that
the pacifist policies of Zimmerwald and Keinthal had permeated a large
part of the Socialist movement, and that the Soviet, the Councils of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, claiming to exercise control over the
Provisional Government, were divided. He feared that the proposal to
establish a Coalition Government would not lead to success, because of
"discord in the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates itself."
Not all the members of the latter body were agreed upon entering into a
Coalition Government, and "it is evident that those who do not enter the
government will continue to criticize those who have entered, and it is
possible that the Socialists who enter the Cabinet will find themselves
confronted with the same storm of criticism as the government did
before." Still, because it meant the creation of a stronger government
at once, which was the most vital need, he, like Guchkov, favored a
coalition which would ally the Constitutional Democratic party with the
majority of the Socialists. The Soviet had decided at its meeting on May
14th to participate in a Coalition Ministry. The struggle upon that
question between Bolsheviki and Mensheviki was long and bitter. The
vote, which was forty-one in favor of participation to nineteen against,
probably fairly represented the full strength of Bolshevism in its
stronghold. After various conferences between Premier Lvov and th
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