Klasne, demokratske i delegatske deteriminante revolucionarnih sovjeta
Class, Democratic and Delegational Determinants of the Revolutionary Soviets

Summary/Abstract: The author proceeds from the fact that the soviets emerged as a form of spontaneous revolutionary organization of the working class. As a mass workers' organization, the soviets soon outgrew the framework of their economic protective role. The political function of the soviets did not consist only in their being a militant organization of the proletariat - an organization for revolutionary action. Almost from the very outset they also represented a basis for the new, future control of the working class as a class. This is precisely why (being a mass organizational form of the proletariat in the revolutionary struggle, with a scope far exceeding the framework of the avant-garde party they made possible the victory of the revolution in 1917, and why it is mostly owing to tl1em that the revolution assumed the character of a broad class uprising. The basic determinants of the soviets - their class, democratic and delegational character - were not defined in advance by some programmatic determination but emerged as a direct consequence of the revolutionary action of the working class. On the strength of these arguments, the author draws the conclusion that elements of the system of the soviets from the revolutionary period still remain as a permanent source of inspiration.

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