Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
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peasants brought to desperation come out in open rebellion; the
landlords and Government authorities massacre them with punitive expeditions; factories and mines are closing down, workmen are threatened with starvation.... The bourgeoisie and its Generals want to restore a blind discipline in the army.... Supported by the bourgeoisie, the Kornilovtsi are openly getting ready to break up the meeting of the Constituent Assembly.... The Kerensky Government is against the people. He will destroy the country.... This paper stands for the people and by the people-the poor classes, workers, soldiers and peasants. The people can only be saved by the completion of the Revolution... and for this purpose the full power must be in the hands of the Soviets.... This paper advocates the following: All power to the Soviets-both in the capital and in the provinces. Immediate truce on all fronts. An honest peace between peoples. Landlord estates-without compensation-to the peasants. Workers' control over industrial production. A faithfully and honestly elected Constituent Assembly. It is interesting to reproduce here a passage from that same paper-the organ of those Bolsheviki so well known to the world as German agents: The German kaiser, covered with the blood of millions of dead |
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