The article analyzes the assessments of actions of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries on July 6, 1918 in Russian and Western historiography (assassination of the German ambassador Mirbach, capture of the telegraph and sending telegrams about the revolt against German imperialism): adventure, rebellion, mutiny, provocation and «armed demonstration» to disrupt the peace of Brest. The author concludes that these actions were directed not only at disrupting the peace of Brest and the resumption of war with Germany, but were an attempt of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries to overthrow the Soviet government and to take power into their own hands. The masses were against these actions, so these should be qualified as an adventure and a mutiny.
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