ABSTRACT
Stalin was something more than a professional revolutionary; he was becoming a true leader of the masses, capable of comprehensive judgements, analyses, and syntheses, and of drawing valuable conclusions from passing events. After the Petrograd conference, he convoked yet another conference on the 21 and 22 July. The Conference was followed by the Sixth Congress of the Bolshevik Party, the first since the revolution. Lenin, who could not attend it, had insisted on its convocation. In a message conveyed to Stalin by Ordjonikidzé, he had said: 'The Congress must be convoked. Kerensky will not dare to dissolve it'. And on the 26 July it assembled in the suburb of Viborg. The Sixth Congress ended with the adhesion of Trotzky's inteltectuals of the Left. To the strains of the Internationale the reunion of the 'Congress of Unification' was baptized. Trotzky himself was not there; he and Kamenev were still in prison, charged with high treason. But both were presently released.
