Left S R Delegates - The Only Thing That Could Save the Revolution Now

The left communist opposition to the peace treaty would join them. They were quite open about this, just as the bolsheviks had been very open in the lead up to october. Despite their own angry misgivings with the treaty of breastlitovsk, the left communist delegates chose not to break party discipline and they voted against the left s r motion. It was defeated. The treaty stood, war would not be re declared. With this critical vote lost, the left sr delegates promptly walked out of the room. That very night, they initiated their plans for the act of terrorism that would be the signal for a nation wide popular revolt. They ordered a hit on the g