 By contrast, other Bolsheviks—in particular Nikolai Bukharin and the Left Communists—believed that peace with the Central Powers would be a betrayal of international socialism and that Russia should instead wage "a war of revolutionary defence" that would provoke an uprising of the German proletariat against their own government.Lenin proposed a three-month armistice in his Decree on Peace of November 1917, which was approved by the Second Congress of Soviets and presented to the German and Austro-Hungarian governments.The Germans responded positively, viewing this as an opportunity to focus on the Western Front and stave off looming defeat.