Only the walls screamed, and the few newspapers; denunciation, appeal, decree…
An enormous poster carried the hysterical manifesto of the Executive Committee of the Peasants’ Soviets:
… They (the Bolsheviki) dare to say that they are supported by the Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies, and that they are speaking on behalf of the Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies…
Let all working-class Russia know that this is a lie, and that all the working peasants—in the person of—the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies—refutes with indignation all participation of the organised peasantry in this criminal violation of the will of the working-classes…
From the Soldier Section of the Socialist Revolutionary party:
The insane attempt of the Bolsheviki is on the eve of collapse. The garrison is divided… The Ministries are on strike and bread is getting scarcer. All factions except the few Bolsheviki have left the Congress. The Bolsheviki are alone…
We call upon all sane elements to group themselves around the Committee for Salvation of Country and Revolution, and to prepare themselves seriously to be ready at the first call of the Central Committee…
In a hand-bill the Council of the Republic recited its wrongs:
Ceding to the force of bayonets, the Council of the Republic has been obliged to separate, and temporarily to interrupt its meetings.The usurpers, with the words “Liberty and Socialism” on their lips, have set up a rule of arbitrary violence. They have arrested the members of the Provisional Government, closed the newspapers, seized the printing-shops… This power must be considered the enemy of the people and the Revolution; it is necessary to do battle with it, and to pull it down…
