 Complete the following phrase:  In Petrograd, Trotsky argued passionately against signing and proposed that instead, they should announce the termination of the war and demobilization without signing any peace. Lenin was for signing rather than having an even more ruinous treaty forced on them after a few more weeks of military humiliation. The Left Communists, led by Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, were sure that Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria were all on the verge of revolution. They wanted to continue the war with a newly-raised revolutionary force while awaiting for these upheavals. Consequently, Lenin agreed to Trotskys formulaa position summed up as no war  no peacewhich was announced when the negotiators reconvened on 10 February 1918. The Soviets thought that their stalling was succeeding until 16 February when Hoffmann notified them that the war would resume in two days, when fifty-three divisions 