‘Having undertaken to arm workers, the Soviet had to find its way to weapons’

In creating a commission to draw up regulations for the “Committee of Defense,” the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet designated for the future military body such tasks as the following: To get in touch with the Northern front and with the headquarters of the Petrograd district, with Centrobalt and the regional soviet of Finland, in order to ascertain the military situation and take the…

Would the Bolsheviks boycott the Pre-Parliament?

Before dispersing, the Conference appointed from its members a permanent body composed of 15 per cent of the membership of each of its groups – in all, about 350 delegates. The institutions of the possessing classes were to receive in addition to this 120 seats. The government in its own name added 20 seats for the Cossacks. All these together were to constitute a Council of the Republic, or…

Capitalists ponder: How to make revolutionary soldiers keep fighting an imperialist war?

Above all these fluctuations and contradictions in the army and in the country, one eternal question was hanging, summed up in the short word, war. From the Baltic to the Black Sea, from the Black Sea to the Caspian and beyond into the depths of Persia, on an immeasurable front, stood sixty-eight corps of infantry and nine of cavalry. What should happen to them further? What was to be done with…

The Soviet Executive Committee

The organisation created on February 27 in the Tauride Palace, and called “Executive Committee of The Soviet of Workers’ Deputies,” had little in common with its name. The Soviet of Deputies of 1905, the originator of the system, rose out of a general strike. It directly represented the masses in struggle. The leaders of the strike became the deputies of the Soviet; the selection of its…

‘The democrats attributed an almost mystic importance to recognition by the Entente’

What was the real constitution of the country after the inauguration of the new power?

The monarchist reaction was hiding in the cracks. With the very first ebb of the wave, property owners of all kinds and tendencies gathered around the banner of the Kadet Party, which had suddenly become the only non-socialist party – and at the same time the extreme right party – fill the open arena.

The…

बदायूं जनपद में समाजवादी पार्टी का उदयवीर सिंह शाक्य को महासचिव, सुनील यादव को जिला उपाध्यक्ष और रचित गुप्ता को जिला कोषाध्यक्ष घोषित कर दिया गया है। समाजवादी पार्टी के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष श्यामलाल पाल द्वारा पत्र जारी करते ही वरिष्ठ सपा नेता सुरेश पाल सिंह चौहान को लेकर जनपद में तरह-तरह की चर्चायें होने लगीं। कयासबाजी का दौर लगातार जारी है। लखनऊ में 15 जून को समाजवादी पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष…