[1918, July, no later than 29]

I.
Before the new harvest — critical period of the revolution.
The highest point of the crisis.
II. "State of war" defined itself:
Czechoslovaks (15 million) -|- White Guards landowners capitalists
Murman
Alexeyev |in Tikhoretskaya|
Baku (Dashnaks + Englishmen)
Turkestan (Englishmen).
III. "Encirclement" by Anglo-French imperialists. "Ring."
Bribed and bought the bourgeoisie, in alliance with it.
IV. Food supply. Cut off from bread.
V. "Kulak uprisings"
Class character clearer than clear:
proletariat + village poor versus * kulaks and bourgeoisie
vacillations of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.
* — against.


VI. War fatigue (Simbirsk: peasant gubernia)
+ betrayals by commanders (as happened in the Great French
Revolution).
VII. Meanwhile, it is decided by military situation, decided by war (civil).
All forces to war!
All forces against the Czechoslovaks.
Treason and betrayal by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.
VIII. What is the struggle about? What is at stake?
a) Restoration of the power of landowners and capitalists
b) Restoration of the front, to drawin
totheimperialistwar.
Czechoslovak front (15 mill. rubles)
Murmansk.
Alexeyev
Baku
Turkestan.
Class situation:
kulak uprisings; decisive
b. battle with the bourgeoisie. The poor and the working people versus the bourgeoisie.
Proletariat and the poor: who will attract.
. . . Food Supply . . .
War fatigue: betrayals by commanders;
c. surrender of Simbirsk (similar examples occurred in the Great French
Revolution: no hopelessness).
d. Military situation: decides the military outcome.
e. Restore the front:
submission to the imperialists of the entire country.
a) Power of landowners and capitalists
b) To draw forces
into the imperialist war and into imperialist slavery.