<Tab/>The July days is the name given to the event where the Kronstadt sailors held demonstrations under Bolshevik slogans, such as "all power to the people." The July days had both a positive and a negative effect on the position of the Bolsheviks. Its positive effect was that it demonstrated their popularity amongst the lower social class through the fact that it was their image, their slogans, that incited them to demonstrate. However its negative effect was that it 'discredited the Bolsheviks' who were for a short time blamed for the bloodshed that occurred while the provisional government crushed the rising. Furthermore, it also disrupted, or one might be led to think so, the activity of the Bolsheviks during the period in which Lenin was being attacked by Kerensky and most of the Bolshevik leaders were forced into hiding. …
