After the defeat of the July Days (see the Russian Revolution Special), a major campaign of false accusations against the Bolsheviks and their leaders was launched. The bourgeois newspapers, intellectuals and, of course, the leaders of the interim government orchestrated a campaign in which they alleged that the Bolsheviks were at the service of the German Empire – enemy of Russia in World War I – and that Lenin was an agent of Germany who had to prepare the Russian defeat [in War] as his main goal.
The end of the peaceful road to revolution
