In any case, it is a fact that the Left-wing Social Revolutionaries lent their support to the Bolsheviks. Because of this, the resistance to the Bolsheviks rule and reform measures, huge in any case, will increase. Because of this, it is clear that the basis upon which their rule rests has been significantly diminished. Probably this internal falling-out and division of the heterogeneous elements of the revolution was inevitable, just as it is inevitable in the progressive radicalization of every developing revolution. Now, however, a controversy over the brutal German military dictatorship as in fact entered into the Russian Revolution.
German imperialism is the thorn in the flesh of the Russian Revolution.
The flames of the world war are leaping across Russian soil and at any moment may engulf the Russian Revolution. To withdraw from the world war even at the price of the greatest sacrifices is something which, at the final analysis, it is simply impossible for Russia to do. In this way the Russian Revolution would be dragged by the world war, from which it sought to withdraw at any price, over to the opposite camp from the side of the Entente while under the Tsar to German side under the Bolsheviks. It is to the everlasting credit of the Russian revolutionary proletariat that its first gesture following the outbreak of the revolution was a refusal to continue to fight as a levies of Franco-English imperialism. In view of the international situation, however, to render military service to German imperialism is even worse.