They saw themselves as like a political lobby group. And they met where the government met, but they didn't vote. They put influence on the bourgeoisie to make sure that the rights of the workers, the interests of the workers, were being legitimately looked after. Kind of like unions in America, I would say. But the provisional government makes a big mistake. Now the leader of the provisional government, Alexander Kerensky, he was actually a socialist. He kind of crossed over.