The Council of the Republic, until the resumption of its labours, invites the citizens of the Russian Republic to group themselves around the… local Committees for Salvation of Country and Revolution, which are organising the overthrow of the Bolsheviki and the creation of a Government capable of leading the country to the Constituent Assembly.
Dielo Naroda said:
A revolution is a rising of all the people… But here what have we? Nothing but a handful of poor fools deceived by Lenin and Trotzky… Their decrees and their appeals will simply add to the museum of historical curiosities…
And Narodnoye Slovo (People’s Word—Populist Socialist):
“Workers’ and Peasants’ Government?” That is only a pipe-dream; nobody, either in Russia or in the countries of our Allies, will recognise this “Government”—or even in the enemy countries…
The bourgeois press had temporarily disappeared…
Pravda had an account of the first meeting of the new Tsay-ee-kah, now the parliament of the Russian Soviet Republic. Miliutin, Commissar of Agriculture, remarked that the Peasants’ Executive Committee had called an All-Russian Peasant Congress for December 13th.
“But we cannot wait,” he said. “We must have the backing of the peasants. I propose that we call the Congress of Peasants, and do it immediately…” The Left Socialist Revolutionaries agreed. An Appeal to the Peasants of Russia was hastily drafted, and a committee of five elected to carry out the project.
The question of detailed plans for distributing the land, and the question of Workers’ Control of Industry, were postponed until the experts working on them should submit a report.
