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158 promote a revolutionary mass party of their own۔It was true that in May 1925 Stalin had accepted the position of Roy and advocated the formation of a revolutionary bloc in India led by the proletariat in general and the Communists in particular, and including the revolutionary section of the bourgeoisie۔But the other line of working with bourgeoisie leadership still held the field till the end of 1927۔The Brussels Congress testified to the importance the Soviet Union still attached to bourgeoisie nationalist movements; and the severance of diplomatic relations by Britain in 1927 followed by strong rumours of British preparations for military invasion' with Peshawar as a base' led to a war scare in the Soviet Union۔Now more than ever it seemed invaluable to have the sympathy' if not the active support of the Congress Party۔A change in Soviet attitude came towards the end of 1927۔The setbacks in China and the failure of the efforts to reach a approachment with the Western Powers unnerved the makers of Soviet and Comintern policy; and Stalin, who was now finally emerging as the victor in his rivalry with Trotsky' viewed the colonial question only against the background of European events and had a more limited idea of the Security of the Soviet Union۔At the Fifteenth Party Congress, Bukharin made it clear that the bourgeoisie in India could no longer be supported۔The Sixth Congress of the Third International formally abandoned in 1928 the policy of a united front against imperialism and directed the Indian Communist Party to act in isolation and work for an