Ten Days That Shook the World

olution

, Novemb

ize

declares that it will not tolerate

s and attempts at massacre

e, the Committee will destroy without mer

reets, and on the corners soldiers and Red Guards squatted around little fires, laughing and singing. In the daytime great cr

ed each other

sacks ar

o…

s the

anything. Wher

versts from Petrograd

fled to the ba

say

nd the few newspapers; den

ried the hysterical ma

f the Peasa

ed by the Soviets of Peasants' Deputies, and that they ar

f-the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN SOVIETS OF PEASANTS' DEPUTIES-refutes with indignation all

tion of the Socialis

divided…. The Ministries are on strike and bread is getting scarcer. All facti

e elements to group

on of Country and Rev

to be ready at the fi

mit

ouncil of the Republ

of the Republic has been obliged to separat

e arrested the members of the Provisional Government, closed the newspapers, seized the printing-shops….This power mus

roup themselves around the….local Committees for Salvation of Country and Revolution, which are organising the over

Naroda

ng of all the people….

of poor fools deceived

ir appeals will simpl

al curio

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nobody, either in Russia or in the countries of our Allies, w

Tsay-ee-kah, now the parliament of the Russian Soviet Republic. Miliutin, Commissar of Agriculture, rema

Congress of Peasants, and do it immediately…." The Left Socialist Revolutionaries agreed. An Appeal t

d the question of Workers' Control of Industry, were postpon

ment, inciting to criminal acts, or deliberately perverting the news; the Decree of Moratorium for House-rents; and the Decree Establishing a Workers' Militia. Also orders, one giving the Municipal Duma power

of the Peasants' Soviets was sending bro

of Organisation for the National Congress of Peasants," is inviting al

angerous to take away from the provinces at this moment the forces necessary to prepare for elections to the Constituent Assembly,

Councillor ran in with a copy of Kerensky's proclamation, dropped by hundreds from an aeroplane low flying down the Nevsky, which thre

ld enter the city to-morrow-in a few hours. The Soviet troops in contact with his Cossacks were said to be going over to the Prov

ng. The employees of the State Bank had refused to work under Commissars from Smolny, refused to pay out money to them. All the private banks were closed. The

Labour, had commanded all the employees of his Ministry to return to their places within twenty-four hours, or lose their places and their pension-rights; only the door-servants had responded…. Some of the branches of the Spec

all members who had remained in the Congress of Sovie

insurrectionary leaders. The Soviet and garrison of Luga, thirty thousand strong, affirmed its loyalty to the Provisional Government, and

arties cease at once, and insisting on the formation of a coalition Socialist Government. Otherwise we shall call a strike to-morrow n

" laughed the City Engin

workers and soldiers running in and out, and doubled guards everywhere

own to the Press Bureau and told us to leave! Said we were spies!" Th

amations and orders of the Military Revolutionary Committee. Workme

be

E PIL

i and their followers and the Right Socialist Revolutionaries have betrayed the

creating a panic in the city, spreading the most ridi

n defeat the People's Revolution…. Premier Kerensky and

oldiers, sailors and peasants, on whom they are trying to rivet the ancient chains. They w

to the traitors

f the railing was crowded with well-dressed persons, outwardly respectful but inwardly full of murder-bourgeois who wanted permits for their automobiles, or pa

ns-enthusiastic support. The garrison and squadron at Reval elect Military Revolutionary Committees to cooperate, and despatch troops. Military Revolutionary Committees control in Pskov

over to the Soviets, but the Arsenal is in the hands of Colonel Diabtsev and his yunkers. The Revolutionary Committee demanded arms for the workers, and Riabtsev parleyed

submitted to Smolny's

g, was stormed by Dy

d a new Tsentroflot s

he Black Sea

of the Factory-Shop Committees, his face drawn and yellow, assured me that there was a whole army corps of them, but he added, fiercely, "They'll never take us alive!" Petrovsky laug

Gatchina, Pavlovsk, Tsarskoye Selo were divided-half voting to remain neutral,

hey were pasti

SELO, NOVEMB

of Staffs, Commanders in Chief, Comma

ograd have voluntarily surrendered their arms and joined the armies of the former Government, the Government of Treason, and that the soldi

order to take a more convenient position, which is at present so strong that if Kerensky and his companions in arms shoul

grad all

of Petrograd and th

t-Colonel

y Committee Antonov entered, a paper

his," s

OF WORKERS' DEPUTIES A

capital. All the necessary orders have been given to crush mercilessly

e Revolution are in need of the

SOVIETS AND FACTOR

rkers for the digging of trenches, the erection o

this purpose to stop work at the fac

assembled, and also all implements for the dig

able arms mu

VED, AND EVERY ONE MUST BE READY TO SUPPOR

rad Soviet of Worker's

ommissar L

Military Revolut

in Chief

heir dun and miserable hordes. Red Petrograd was in danger! Cossacks! South and southwest they poured through the shabby streets toward the Moskovsky Gate, men, women and children, with rifles, picks, spades, rolls of wire, cartridge-belts over their working clothes…. S

stood leaning against a mud-guard with his hands in the pockets of a shabby raglan. A great bearded sailor, with the clear eyes of youth,

l would get scratched, he said. True, he was a Bolshevik, and the automobile was commandeered from a bourgeois; true, the bi

ith them? Certainly not. The automobile only held five-the two Commissars, two orderlies and the chauffeur. However, a Ru

might be out three or four days, in a country indifferently well provisioned. They stopped the car. Money? The Commissar of War loo

ed into the Nevsk

we do?" as

his revolver. Antonov stood in the middle of the stree

machine," s

it," responde

that he had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of all the armies of the

hotly. "This machine belongs to the First Machine-Gun Regiment

me of trouble private cars were registered in the name of foreign consulates, so as to be safe from requisition.)

commandant of the Red Guard. He was led to the edge of the town, where s

ight here, comrad

t, comrade," answe

nt spirits…. Only one thin

ov told him. "I will give you an order." He fel

couriers. Trusishka had

cil!" cried Antonov.

sishka had the only

ter was falling. Heads up they tramped in the chill mud, irregular lines of four, without music, without drums. A red flag crudely lettered in gold, "Peace! Land!" floated over them. They w

184: Pass to th

pon the recommendation

volution. It gives me

-and an added note on

ts. It will be noticed

f the Petrograd Sovie

internationalists to

m"; but at the same t

the "S

nsla

ive Co

rad So

' and S

pu

ary S

ctober

.

TIF

ate is given to the

acy, the international

onary Committee of th

Deputies gives him th

thern front, for the p

internationalists conc

he Pr

he Se

re Kerensky was, or where the front lay. Tra

a in two, and that the train was headed into the zone of battle. Through the window we could see, in the swiftly-deepening darkness, masses of soldiers going along the muddy road toward the city, flinging out their arms in argument. A fr

ack in the direction of Gatchina. I asked some of them which side they were on. "Well," said one, "we don't exactly know the rights of t

wearing the red arm-band of a regimental committee. Our credentials from Smoln

ere two hours ago, but

rning, but he returned

ks arr

acks are

sacks came early in the morning. They captured two or

re the C

this far. I don't kno

He waved his arm

earby sat a French officer who had just come on foot from Gatchina. All was quiet there, he said. Kerensky held t

d. They were surrounded by about a hundred business men, Government officials and students, who attacked them

expression, dressed in the uniform

by taking up arms against your brothers you are ma

ou don't understand. There are two classes, don't

a few catch-words. You don't understand what they mean. You just echo them like a lot of parrots." The crowd laughed. "I

ing from his brow. "You are an educated man, that is easy

ed the other contemptu

l friend of th

swered the sold

sent through Germany in a closed car? Do you

it seems to me that what he says is what I want to hear, and all the simple

nary activity, when you were still shooting down revolutionists and singing 'God

ver did," answered the

educated man. You are

posed to the Bolsheviki, who are destroying our Russia

e pain of his intellectual processes. "To me it seems perfectly simple-but then, I'm not we

ith your silly formul

s," went on the s

't on one side i

een heaven and hell, a political No Man's Land. Only the barber shops were all brilliantly lighted and crowded, and a line formed at the doors of the public bath; for it was Sat

t was in the wing of one of the Grand Ducal palaces, fronting the Park. The windows were dark, the door locked. A soldier, lounging about with his hands in th

le we were hesitating, a soldier and a sailor came down the street, hand in hand. I showed them my pass from

re?" asked the sailor, p

n't k

door a crack. Inside a great hall hung with bunting

and and her mouth full of tacks came

nce to-night?" said

tricals Sunday night," she

n conversation, but they seemed frightened

water splashing from the fountains. At one place, where a ridiculous iron swan spat unceasingly from an artificial grotto, we were suddenly aware of observation, and looked up

ery depressed, as undoubtedly they were, from weeks

ky's troops, or

they looked uneasily at each othe

ce enclosure itself, asking for headquarters. A sentry outside a door i

od anxiously talking. They were pale and distracted, and evidently hadn't slept. To one, an oldish man with a whit

s in the streets just now. Political passion is running very high in Tsarskoye Selo. There was a battle t

re the C

ver that way."

defend the cit

l cleared his throat. "About those passes of yours," he went on. "Your lives will be in danger if you are captured. Therefore, if you want to see the batt

for Kerens

went away in the direction of Petrograd, taking the artillery with them. You might say that none of the soldiers are for Kerensky; but some of them just don't

the railroad station. He was from the South, born of French immigrant parents in Bessarabia. "Ah," he kept

limpses of clumps of soldiers gesticulating in the light of fires, and of clusters of armoured cars

uards wandered, clashing and confused, and the Commissars of the Military Revolut

of Bolshevik violence-massacre of the yunkers in the Winter Palace, rape of the women soldiers, the shooting of the girl before the Duma, the murder of Prince Tumanov…. In the Alexander Hall of the Duma building the Committee for Salvation was in special session; Commissars came and went, running…. All the

y Gotz and Polkovnikov, ordering the yunker schools, soldier convalescents in the hospitals, and the Knights of St. George to mobilise on a

ulation of

diers and citizens of

for peace at the front, are in

heir provoca

dig t

e traitorous

wn you

eturn to yo

trograd-is the deat

ace, unite around the Committee for

wn the dark, deserted street with a dozen prisoners-members of the local branch of the C

l boy with a pail of paste, was

eclared in a state of siege. All assemblies or meetings in the street

President of

onary Co

ed sound-automobile horns, shouts, distant

just before the hour of changing guard. They had the Bolshevik password, and took charge without arousing suspicion. A few minutes later Antonov appeared,

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