The Russian Peasant Delegation

The russians brought as equal members of their negotiating team a soldier, a sailor, a worker, a peasant and a woman. They very visibly positioned themselves as a completely new political animal on the world stage,. one that represented the people, not just the ruling class. The conference formally began on november twentieth, with this motley array of scruffy russian revolutionaries seated across the table from aristocratic, old world diplomats and generals.