The political mood of the Russian masses in the autumn of 1917 was characterized by their Bolshevization, rallying around the working class and its vanguard, the Leninist Party. These sentiments were most clearly expressed in the attitude of the masses towards the question of power, the fundamental question of the revolution, which determined its fate. "The question of power cannot be evaded or set aside," Lenin wrote, "for it is precisely the fundamental question that determines everything in the development of the revolution, in its foreign and domestic policy." 1 As the revolution progressed, broad strata of the working people were imbued with the understanding that without the overthrow of the power of the bourgeoisie and the landlords, without the transfer of the helm of State administration into the hands of the workers and peasants, not a single demand of the masses would be satisfied, and that this alone would be the way out of the impasse into which the policy of the Provisional Government On the eve of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the question of power in Russia escalated to the limit, accumulating all the vital aspirations and hopes of the masses, reflecting their main political moods. The national detachments of the working people of Russia have also become convinced that none of their urgent demands will be met as long as State power is in the hands of the bourgeoisie and the landlords. The hated war continued, the solution of the agrarian question was postponed month after month, measures were not taken to combat hunger, which increasingly crushed the masses of the people, and many other issues of concern to the working people remained unresolved. The policy of national oppression continued, and the demands for self-determination and national freedom were invariably rejected by the bourgeois-landlord Government, which took the path of direct repression against the national liberation movement. The solution of national problems depended entir ... Read more