APPEAL OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS TO THE MOSLEMS OF RUSSIA AND THE EAST
3 December 1917Kluchnikov & Sabanin, ii, p. 94 (dated 7 December)
Comrades! Brothers!
Great events are taking place in Russia! An end is drawing near to the murderous war, started by the bargainings of foreign Powers. The rule of the plunderers who exploit the peoples of the world is tottering. The ancient citadel of slavery and serfdom is crumbling under the blows of the Russian revolution. The world of violence and oppression is approaching its last days. A new world is being born, a world of the toilers and the liberated. At the head of this revelation stands the workers’ and peasants’ Government of Russia, the Council of People’s Commissars.
Revolutionary councils of workers’, soldiers’, and peasants’ deputies are scattered over the whole of Russia. Power in the country is in the
