<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Revolutionary_Committee">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Revolutionary_Committee</a><br>
<br>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">On the second anniversary of the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution"
title="October Revolution" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">October
Revolution</a>, a friend of Trotsky,<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Ioffe" title="Adolf
Ioffe" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Adolf
Ioffe</a>, wrote an article on the Military Revolutionary
Committee of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrograd_Soviet"
title="Petrograd Soviet" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position:
initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Petrograd
Soviet</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_International"
title="Communist International" class="mw-redirect"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);
background-image: none; background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial;">Communist International</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>titled “The First
Proletarian Government.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><sup
id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Revolutionary_Committee#cite_note-8"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);
background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat:
initial initial;"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a></sup><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The MRC was created
approximately two weeks before the Bolsheviks seized power in
response to the decision of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Government"
title="Provisional Government" class="mw-redirect"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);
background-image: none; background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial;">Provisional Government</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>under Kerensky to transfer
military units that were suspected of being too strongly under the
influence of Bolsheviks or other radical parties.<sup
id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em;
font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Revolutionary_Committee#cite_note-9"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);
background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat:
initial initial;"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Initially, the MRC had 66 identified members. Of these
members, 48 were Bolsheviks, fourteen were<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Socialist-Revolutionaries"
title="Left Socialist-Revolutionaries" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial
initial;">Left Socialist-Revolutionaries</a>, and four were<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchists"
title="Anarchists" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;
background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial
initial;">Anarchists</a>. In contrast to the Bolsheviks, the
Left Socialist-Revolutionaries abided by their own official
ideology of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radical_Populism&action=edit&redlink=1"
class="new" title="Radical Populism (page does not exist)"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88);
background-image: none; background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial;">Radical Populism</a>, and
the Anarchists, from the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Federation_of_Anarchist_Groups&action=edit&redlink=1"
class="new" title="Federation of Anarchist Groups (page does not
exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88);
background-image: none; background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial;">Federation of Anarchist
Groups</a>, had<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-Syndicalism"
title="Anarcho-Syndicalism" class="mw-redirect"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);
background-image: none; background-position: initial initial;
background-repeat: initial initial;">Anarcho-Syndicalist</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>views.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.1875px; color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px;
font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><br>
</p>
<br>
</body>
</html>