Through the Russian Revolution . should you work sixteen? Why deliver yourgrain to the cities when you get nothing in return? *The old Executive Committee of the Peasants So-viet flatly refused to recognize the new governmentat Smolny. Over their heads, however, the Bolsheviks calleda new congress of peasants. Here the old guardwith Chernov made furious assaults upon the Bol-sheviks. But two stubborn facts could not bedowned. First: The Bolsheviks had given the peas-ants land—not promises. Second: The Bolshevikswere now inviting the peasants to participate in thenew government. After days of s
Through the Russian Revolution . should you work sixteen? Why deliver yourgrain to the cities when you get nothing in return? *The old Executive Committee of the Peasants So-viet flatly refused to recognize the new governmentat Smolny. Over their heads, however, the Bolsheviks calleda new congress of peasants. Here the old guardwith Chernov made furious assaults upon the Bol-sheviks. But two stubborn facts could not bedowned. First: The Bolsheviks had given the peas-ants land—not promises. Second: The Bolshevikswere now inviting the peasants to participate in thenew government. After days of stormy debate an agreement wasconcluded. The peasants streamed out into thenight lit with torches, the band of the PavlovskyRegiment crashed into the Marseillaise, workmenrushed in upon the peasants clasping them in theirarms and kissing them. Behind the huge peasantSoviet banner with its inscription: Long Live the ?Appendix, p. 310. Soviet appeal to Peasants: Dear Brothers. HToBbI EoAblUE HMETb-HAA<» BOAbUlE nPoH3BOAHTb. HToBbI EoliUJE nPoH3Bo/pTb- HAAo BoAbUJE 3HATb In Order to Have More, it is Xecessary to Produce More. InOrder to Produce More, it is Necessary to Know More. THE WAR OF THE CLASSES 169 Union of the Toiling Masses the procession passedthru the snow-covered streets to Smolny. Here theformal wedding of the peasants with the soldiersand workers was consummated. In exaltation anold mujik cried out, *T came here not walking onthe ground but flying thru the air. The new gov-ernment became in reality a Soviet of Workmen,Soldier and Peasant Deputies. In their efforts to break the Soviets the bour-geoisie struck out right and left—as far left as theAnarchists. Hundreds of officers and monarchistsfiltered into the anarchist organizations and underthe black flag became anarchists of deed. They entered hotels and at revolver-point re-quisitioned the pocket-books of the guests. In Mos-cow they nationalized thirty-four palaces bydumping the inmates into the streets. T
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