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  ^[64] Long Parliament‹the parliament at the time of the bourgeois revolution in England in the seventeenth century which sat for thirteen years (1640-53).    [p. 216]

  ^[65] The Preliminary Conference or "Private Conference of Public Men" as it was otherwise called, met in Moscow from August 8 to 10, 1917. Its object was to unite the bourgeoisie, landlords and military and to draft a joint program for the forthcoming Conference of State. At the conference a counter-revolutionary Union of Public Men was set up.    [p. 218]