an ordinance of the petrograd soviet of workers and soldiers Deputies, November 17, 1917, said that it was necessary "to make an immediate and clean break with the rotten bourgeois prejudice that only bourgeois officials can run the state, to divide with out any further delay the district and city Soviets into departments, each in its particular field, to draw the more politically conscious and organisationally talented comrades now working in factories and serving in the army into the activities of such department and thus enable them to help the people's Commissar.