The Left's Resistance to the Bolshevik Decrees

The left s rs as a party were defined by their decision to support the bolsheviks during october revolution. Their presence inside the government legitimized the people's commissaurs and effectively countered accusations against lanan trotsky that they were trying to build a one party dictatorship. And what the second party brought to the table was, for example, access to the peasantry. The communist party had essentially zero operational presence outside the cities and it was the left srs who provided a supportive link to the rural peasantry.