Голоса pеволюции, 1917 г.
Documents in the original Russian from:
Mark D. Steinberg, Voices of Revolution, 1917
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001)
Documents compiled by Mark Steinberg, Zinaida Peregudova, and Liubov Tiutiunnik
Transcriptions from photocopied originals by Marjorie Hilton, Ekaterina Betekhtina, and Olga Semenenko
Note: incorrect spelling and grammar used by the authors of these texts have been retained in these transcriptions though not in the translations that appear in the published book. Russian orthography has been modernized, however (e.g. final hard signs have not been used).
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Abbreviations
Documents:
Part 1: Liberty, Desire, and Frustration: The First Months of the Revolution
Part 2: Crisis and Upheaval: From the July Days to Bolshevik Power
Part 3: Soviets in Power: From the October Revolution to the Closing of the Constituent Assembly
Document List
Part 1: Liberty, Desire, and Frustration: The First
Months of the Revolution
1. "Long Live Free Russia," by Mikhail
Serafimovich, a private in the reserve cavalry, March 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, l. 39. Manuscript. Ellipses in original.
2. "The Russian National Hymn," by the factory worker "Muzhik Mikula," Novgorod province, March 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, l. 14. Typed.
3. "On the Old Tsarist Regime,"
by Fyodor Korsun, a private in the infantry reserves, Orenburg Province, March
1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, ll. 15-15ob. Manuscript. Ellipses in
original.
4. "To the Fallen Freedom Fighters," by metalworker Demyan Semyonov, Viazma railroad depot, Smolensk Province, 17 March 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, ll. 38-38ob. Manuscript. Ellipses in original.
5. "Dawn Has Broken," by the sailor Stepan Stepanov, 28 March 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, ll. 43, 44ob. Manuscript.
6. Letter to Minister of Justice Alexander Kerensky, with a cover letter to chairman of the Petrograd Soviet Nikolai Chkheidze, from worker and deserter A. Zemskov, Kuban region, 26 March 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 296, ll. 39-45ob. Manuscript. Ellipses in original.
7. Appeal to soldiers from the workers of the A. M. Ouf machine, metal, and engineering factories, Petrograd, 28-29 March 1917. Rabochaia gazeta, no. 24 (6 April 1917): 2
8. Resolution of workers of the Putilov metal and machine factory, Petrograd, 31 March 1917. Pravda, no. 23 (1 April 1917): 3.
9. Resolution of the workers of the Petrograd Pipe Factory, printed 4 April 1917. Izvestiia, no. 31 (4 April 1917): 6.
10. Resolution of the workers of the "Old
Parviainen" metal and machine factory, Petrograd, 13 April 1917. Izvestiia, no. 41 (15 April 1917) 3; Pravda, no. 35 (1 May / 18 April [old style], 1917): 4.
11. "From the Council of Elders of the Tula Brass Cartridge Factories," printed 15 April 1917.
Izvestiia, no. 41 (15 April 1917): 3.
12. Appeal to the Petrograd
"People's Committee" from Matvei Frolov, day worker on the Perm
railroad, 25 April 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 354, ll. 1ob.–2. Manuscript.
13. "To All Russian Women and Mothers" from the Smolensk Initiative Group of Women and Mothers, printed 5 May 1917. Novaia
zhizn’, no. 15, (5/18 May 1917): 4.
14. A letter to Rabotnitsa from a restaurant worker in Petrograd, printed 20 May 1917. Rabotnitsa, no. 3 (20 May 1917): 7
15. From the protocol of a general meeting of workers of the Okulovsky Paper Factory and local peasants of Krestetsk
Uezd, Novgorod Province, 21 May 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 354, l. 5a. Typed.
16. Appeal to workers from the Committee of Elders of the Atlas Metal and Machine Factory, Petrograd, printed 11 June 1917. Rabochaia
gazeta, no. 78 (11 June 1917): 4.
17. Protocol of a general meeting of workers and employees of the Vysokovskaia Manufacturing Company Cotton Mill, Moscow Province, 14 June 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 194, l. 67. Typed and signed.
18. Resolution of the workers of the "Old
Parviainen" metal and machine factory. Petrograd, printed 18 June 1917. Pravda, no. 85 (1 July /18 June 1917): 3.
19. Telegram to the Provisional Government and Congress of Soviets from a meeting of twelve thousand workers, soldiers, peasants, and Cossacks in the Kuban region, 18 June 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 364, l. 165.
20. Letter to working women from Maria
Kutsko, a worker at the Petrograd Munitions Works [Orudiinyi zavod], printed 25 June 1917. Rabotnitsa, no. 6 (25 June 1917): 14.
21. Telegram to the Executive Committee of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies from soldiers of the administration of the 17th Mortar Artillery Division, 9 March 1917. Izvestiia, no. 19 (19 March 1917): 5.
22. "Letter from the active army," 10 March 1917. Izvestiia, no. 19 (19 March 1917): 6. Ellipses in original.
23. Appeal to soldiers, workers, and other citizens of Russia from the 8th Siberian Rifle Division, 16 March 1917. Izvestiia, no. 28 (30 March 1917): 4.
24. Letter to the Petrograd Soviet from soldiers of the 61st Siberian Rifle Regiment, 18 March 1917. Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii posle sverzheniia samoderzhaviia (Moscow, 1957), 636-637. Source: TsGVIA (now
RGVIA), f. 2048, op. 1, d. 3, l. 13.
25. Appeal to Petrograd workers from the Tsarskoe Selo Garrison Soldiers' Committee, 24 March 1917. Rabochaia gazeta, no. 19 (29 March 1917): 2.
26. Letter to Chkheidze from "Sick and injured Russian warriors," 31 March 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 297, ll. 45-46. Manuscript.
27. Letter to Chkheidze from 2nd Battery Assembly, Caucasus army, 3 April 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 296, l. 89. Typed.
28. Letter to Chkheidze from soldier workers of Transport Repair Workshop No. 2,
Uman, Kiev Province, 3 April 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 296, ll. 90-90ob. Typed and signed.
29. Letter to the Soviet from Sergeant
Ia. Z. Mazur on behalf of soldiers of the Mortar Artillery Division, 11 April 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 296, l. 107. Manuscript.
30. Letter to Minister of War Guchkov from soldiers of the 64th Infantry Division of the active army, 13 April 1917. Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v aprele 1917 g.: Aprel'skii krizis (Moscow, 1958): 497-498. Source: TsGVIA (now
RGVIA), f. 2003/c, op. 2, d. 118, ll. 251-255ob.
31. Letter to the chairman of the Soviet
of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies from soldier Yegorov in the 753rd Reserve
Regiment, no date (content suggests late April). GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 296,
ll. 1-2. Manuscript.
32. Appeal to all the soldiers of the 12th Army from the 186th Artillery Division, 4 May 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 353, l. 17. Typed and signed.
33. "A Voice from the Trenches," 30 May 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, ll. 177-178. Manuscript.
34. Appeal to reservists from a soldiers' committee at the northern front, June 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, l. 387. Typed.
35. "Letter from the Front" to the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda, 7 June 1917. Pravda, no. 75 (20/7 June 1917): 3.
36. Resolution of the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Reserve Regiment, 18 June 1917. Pravda, no. 85 (1 July / 18 June 1917): 3.
37. Letter to "Comrade Patriots" from soldiers in the trenches, 27 June 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, ll. 358-359. Manuscript.
38. Letter to Izvestiia from the peasant Nikolai
Burakov, Perm Province, 30 March 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 5, l. 3-3ob. Manuscript.
39. Appeal to the Orel Uezd Land Commission, Orel Province, from peasant farmer Nikolai
Savinykh, 6 April 1917. GARF, f. 1796, op. 1, d. 95, ll. 46-46ob. Typed copy.
40. Letter to the Petrograd Soviet from the peasants of Rakalovsk
Volost, Viatka Province, 26 April 1917. Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v aprele 1917 g.: 642-644. Source: GAORSS LO (now TsGA
SPb), f. 7384, op. 9, d. 236, ll. 58-59.
41. Letter to the Petrograd Soviet from "a peasant," 27 April 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 297, ll. 74-77ob. Manuscript.
42. Resolution of a skhod of heads of households from 75 villages, Istra
Volost, Liutsinsk Uezd, Vitebsk Province, early May 1917 (received by Central Executive Committee, 6 May). GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 247, l. 141. Typed.
43. Letter to Izvestiia from a peasant and former soldier, Andrei
Sunin, Novgorod Province, early May 1917 (received 16 May). GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 5, ll. 41-43ob. Manuscript.
44. Letter to Izvestiia from a peasant and former soldier, Nikifor
Tatianenko, Poltava Province, 12 May 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 5, ll. 29-30ob. Manuscript.
45. Appeal to the peasants from a Committee of Soldiers' Deputies, printed 12 May 1917. Rabochaia
gazeta, no. 54 (12 May 1917): 2.
46. Resolution to the Soviet and the Provisional Government from peasant citizens in the villages of Osnichkovo and
Andreevo, Petrograd Province, 11 May 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 244, ll. 4-5ob. Manuscript.
47. Letter to Izvestiia from a village in Ukraine, 21 May 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 5, ll. 55-55ob. Manuscript.
48. Protocol of a meeting of the Sadki village committee, 8 June 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 244, ll. 50-50ob. Manuscript.
49. Resolution from "citizen-tillers of the soil," Kursk Province, 29 June 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, l. 340. Manuscript.
50. Letter to the Soviet from peasants of Lodeina village, Vologda Province, 3 July 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 5, ll. 65-66. Manuscript.
51. "A flame of gold ablaze," by Pyotr
Oreshin, worker, soldier, and "peasant poet," printed 14 May 1917. Delo naroda, no. 49 (14 May 1917): 2. Ellipses in original.
52. Pyotr Oreshin, "In the Fields," 28 May 1917. Delo
naroda, no. 60 (28 May 1917): 2. Ellipses in original.
Part 2: Crisis and Upheaval: From the July Days to
Bolshevik Power
53. Resolution on the July Days by
workers of the Shlisselburg Powder Works, Petrograd, 4 July 1917. Perepiska sekretariata TsK
RSDRP(b) s mestnymi partiinymi organizatsiiami: Sbornik dokumentov, vol. 1: Mart–oktiabr' 1917 g.
(Moscow, 1957), 139. Also published in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v
iiule 1917 g.µOK, as else.?Yesµ (Moscow,
1959), 20-21. Source: TsPA IML (now RGASPI), f. 17, op. 1, d. 154, l. 2. Typed
and signed.
54. Resolution on the July Days by representatives of Petrograd printing workers, 8 July 1917. Delo
naroda, no. 95 (8 July 1917), 4.
55. Resolutions on the July Days by workers and employees of the Petrograd Metal Works and by the Executive Committee of Bolsheviks at the factory, 11 July 1917. Delo
naroda, no. 100 (14 July 1917): 4.
56. Resolution by the printing workers of the former Markus press, Petrograd, 13 July 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, l. 239. Manuscript.
57. "Letter to citizens from workers at the Putilov factory," Petrograd, 11 July 1917. Novaia
zhizn', no. 75 (15/28 July 1917): 3.
58. Resolution of a meeting of workers in twenty-seven small enterprises from the Peterhof district of Petrograd, 27 July 1917. Rabochii i
soldat, no. 11 (4 August 1917): 4. Reprinted with minor orthographic corrections in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v iiule 1917 g., 377-78.
59. Letter to Kerensky from Pyotr Arshinov, railroad workshop storeman, Orel Province, late July or early August 1917 (based on the dates of publication of the Bolshevik proclamation referred to). GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 366, l. 138.
60. Anonymous note to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets, late July 1917 (received 4 August). GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 269, l. 1. Typed on a small piece of paper.
61. Letter to the editor of Izvestiia about a Literary-Musical Evening in Petrograd, 31 July 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 35, ll. 72-72ob. Typed and signed.
62. Resolution by the cultural commission of the Berg factory,
Tver, 17 August 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 12, l. 258. Typed.
63. Resolution by the workers of the Erikson Telephone Factory, Petrograd, printed 18 August 1917. Proletarii, no. 5 (31/18 August 1917): 4.
64. Resolution of a general meeting of the union of forestry workers,
Dubovki, Saratov Province, 27 August 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 1, d. 17, l. 426. Manuscript. Previously published with corrected punctuation and spelling in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v avguste1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 243-244.
65. Telegram to the Provisional Government from workers and employees at the Georgievsky Company Sugar Factory, Petrograd, 6 September 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 234, ll. 142-143. Telegram.
66. Resolution of all the political factions of the Slutsk Soviet, Minsk Province, September 1917 (received 20 September). GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 247, l. 60. Typed and signed.
67. Letter to the Soviet from the soldier
Yurchenko, in the trenches at the front, 8 July 1917. GARF, f. 1235, op. 53, d. 9, ll. 48-51. Manuscript with signatures. Previously published with corrected punctuation and with the author's rank omitted in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v iiule 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 407.
68. Letter to the Bolshevik party from two soldiers on the southwestern front, 8 July 1917. Perepiska sekretariata TsK
RSDRP(b) s mestnymi partiinymi organizatsiiami: sbornik dokumentov vol. 1: Mart-oktiabr' 1917 g. (Moscow, 1957), 436. Also published in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v iiule 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 406. Source: Arkhiv TsPA IML (now RGASPI), f. 17, op. 1, d. 376, ll. 4-5.
69. Resolution on the July Days by the soldiers of the 22nd Railroad Battalion, 9 July 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 254, ll. 4-4ob. Typed and signed.
70. Resolution from soldiers of the 2nd Caucasus Engineering Regiment, July 1917 (received 21 July). GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, l. 247. Typed, with handwritten note added.
71. Resolution by a general meeting of soldiers and officers of the 3rd Company of the Ust-Dvinsk Fortress Artillery, Gulf of Riga, 27 July 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 12, l. 223. Typed, with handwritten note added.
72. Letter to the minister-president of the Provisional Government from Sergeant Major
(Fel'dfebel') Safonov, July or August 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 368, l. 93. Manuscript.
73. Letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets from the soldiers' committee of the 129th Bessarabian Infantry, Received 5 August 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 519, ll. 272-273ob. Manuscript. Previously published with corrected spelling, grammar, and punctuation and with one sentence removed (see notes to document) in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v iiule 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 436.
74. Letter-essay to "Comrade Citizens" from soldier A.
Kuchlavok, approved by the regiment, received by Izvestiia 7 August 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 35, ll. 140-141ob. Typed. Some punctuation has been added for clarity. The original is written as a stream of clauses, divided mainly by commas and an occasional colon, ending in periods only very rarely.
75. Letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets on behalf of positional soldiers, 9 August 1917 . GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 528, l. 181. Manuscript. Previously published with corrected spelling and punctuation in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v avguste 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 259-260.
76. Letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets from a soldier at the front, 9 August 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 531, ll. 4-5. Manuscript. Previously published with corrected spelling and grammar in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v avguste 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 260-261. Ellipses in original.
77. Appeal to the soldiers of the telegraph company, 7th Engineering Regiment, from the telegraph company's soldiers' committee, 13 August 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 12, ll. 259-259ob. Manuscript. Ellipses in original.
78. Letter to Kerensky from soldiers at the front, 18 August 1917. Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v avguste 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 269-270. Source: TsGVIA (now
RGVIA) , f. 366/c, op. 1, d. 334, ll. 467-467ob. Copy.
79. Poem sent to Izvestiia by the soldier P.
Anoshkin, in the active army, received 16 August 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, ll. 3-3ob. Manuscript.
80. Letter to the Socialist Revolutionary newspaper Delo naroda from I.
Morozov, artillery soldier at Vyborg Fortress, end of August 1917. Delo
naroda, no. 147 (6 September 1917): 2.
81. Resolution of the soldiers' committee of the 92nd Transport Battalion, 1 September 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 10, ll. 55-57. Typed and signed.
82. Letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets from the soldiers at the Caucasus front, 16 September 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 534, ll. 238-239. Manuscript. Previously published with correcting spelling and punctuation in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v sentiabre 1917 g. (Moscow, 1961), 431.
83. Poem sent to Izvestiia by a wounded soldier, Ilya Ladanov, received 22 September 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 31, ll. 84-84ob. Manuscript.
84. Appeals to the country and the soldiers from the Soviet of Soldiers' Deputies of the 12th Army, printed 7 October 1917. Izvestiia, no. 191 (7 October 1917): 3.
85. Letter to Izvestiia from a soldier and member of the Petrograd Soviet, received 4 October 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 35, l. 215. Typed and signed.
86. Appeal to the Provisional Government from soldiers at the front, early October 1917 (dated by content and placement in archive file). GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 369, ll. 402-402ob. Manuscript.
87. Instruction (nakaz) to the delegates to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets from the Congress of Soldiers' Representatives, 6th Army Corps, 18 October 1917. GARF, f. 1235, op. 1, d. 16, ll. 41-41ob. Manuscript.
88. Resolution of the soldiers' committee at the front, 2nd Company, 11th Siberian Rifle Regiment, received 23 October 1917. GARF, f. 1244, op. 2, d. 12, ll. 555-555ob. Manuscript.
89. Letter to Izvestiia from Mikhail Savin and the committee of wounded soldiers, mid-October 1917. Izvestiia, no. 210 (29 October 1917): 4.
90. Letter to the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets from the peasant Ivan Pastukhov, Vologda Province, received 7 July 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 523, ll. 246-247ob. Manuscript. Previously published with corrected grammar and punctuation in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii v iiule 1917 g. (Moscow, 1959), 448.
91. Resolution of Gagarin Volost assembly of peasants, Kostroma Province, 9 July 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 205, ll. 1-3. Manuscript.
92. Letter to Kerensky from Ivan Shabrov, Riazan Province, 13 July 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 366, ll. 72-73ob. Manuscript.
93. Letter to the Bolshevik newspaper Rabochii i
soldat, from Timofei Gurov, an injured noncommissioned officer, 9 August 1917. Rabochii i soldat, no. 15 (9 August 1917): 4. Reprinted with orthographic corrections in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v avguste 1917 g., 308.
94. Report addressed to Kerensky from peasants in Valdaisk
Uezd, Novgorod Province, 19 August 1917. GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 363, ll. 244-244ob. Manuscript.
95. Declaration to the Provisional Government from the village assembly, Tambov Province, 21 August 1917. GARF, f. 1796, op. 1, d. 71, ll. 76-77. Manuscript.
96. Petition to the minister of agriculture from Andrei
Kulagin, peasant in Penza Province, received 21 August 1917. GARF, f. 1796, op. 1, d. 37, ll. 174-174ob. Manuscript.
97. "Man and the Land," letter-essay by Semyon
Martynov, a peasant from Orel Province, August 1917 (dated by content and placement in archive files and in relation to a second essay by
Martynov, located in GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 234, l. 91, received by the government and numbered after this one; that essay refers to a press article of 19 August 1917.) GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 234, ll. 88-89ob. Manuscript. Emphasis in original.
98. Letter to Kerensky from G. Korotkov, a worker in the provincial town of
Slaviansk, Kharkov Province, 26 August 1917. GARF, 1778, op. 1, d. 362, l. 1. Manuscript. Ellipses and emphasis in original.
99. Telegram to Kerensky from the "working peasantry" of Botsmanovo-Ivanovsk
Volost, 2 September 1917 (dated by position in archive folder). GARF, f. 1778, op. 1, d. 364, l. 268.
100. Resolution by a general meeting of peasants, Petrograd Province, 17 October 1917. GARF, f. 1235, op. 1, d. 19, ll. 3-4ob. Manuscript. Previously published with orthographic corrections in Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v Rossii nakanune Oktiabr'skogo vooruzhennogo
vosstaniia, 1-24 oktiabria 1917 g. (Moscow, 1962), 453-454.
101. Plea to the soldiers from Iskeevsk
Volost, October 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 247, l. 142. Manuscript.
102. Pyotr Oreshin, a "Song of Freedom," printed 17 September 1917. Delo naroda, no. 157 (17 September 1917): 5. Ellipses in original.
103. Ivan Loginov, "To a Worker Friend," printed 25 September 1917. Rabotnitsa, no. 10 (25 September 1917): 14. Ellipsis in original.
Part 3: Soviets in Power: From the October Revolution
to the Closing of the Constituent Assembly
104. Resolution of the workers of the Kushnerev Printing Works, Moscow, 1 November 1917 (dated by content). Pechatnik: Organ Moskovskogo professional'nogo soiuza rabochikh pechatnogo
dela, no. 7-8 (28 November 1917): 7.
105. Resolution of the workers of the Baltic Shipbuilding Works, Petrograd, 2 November 1917. Izvestiia, no. 216 (4 November 1917): 7.
106. Letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets from a group of Putilov factory workers, Petrograd, received 5 December 1917. GARF, f. 6978, op. 1, d. 247, ll. 118-118ob. Manuscript.
107. Resolution of workers and employees
of the Bogomdarovannyi mine, Yenisei Province, to the Commission on Elections to
the Constituent Assembly, 10 December 1917. GARF, f. 1781, op. 1, d. 42 [242?
see text], ll. 321-321ob. Typed and signed.
108. Letter to Lenin from "a former
Bolshevik," Rostov-on-Don, 19 December 1917. GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d. 8,
ll. 41-41ob. Manuscript.
109. Letter to Pravda from Frants
Kontaka, a worker at the Obukhov Metal Works, Petrograd, printed 3 January 1918. Pravda, no. 1/228 (16/3 January 1918): 4.
110. Resolution of the workers of the Petrograd Military Horseshoe Factory, 4 January 1918. Pravda, no. 5/232, (20/7 January 1918): 4.
111. Resolutions by "The Working Masses on the Disbanding of the Constituent Assembly," 7 January 1918. Pravda, no. 6/233 (22/9) January 1918): 3.
112. Letter to Trotsky, shortly after 5 January 1918 (dated by content). Stamped received 10 January. GARF, 1235, op. 140, d. 8, ll. 83-84. Manuscript.
113. Letter to the Central Executive Committee of Soviets from F.
Petrov, between 5 and11 January 1918 (dated by content; received by the Executive Committee 11 January 1918). GARF, f. 1235, op. 40, d. 8, ll. 97-97ob. Manuscript. Emphasis in the original.
114. Resolution of soldiers of the Preobrazhensky reserves, Petrograd, printed 2 November 1917. Izvestiia, no. 214 (2 November 1917): 6.
115. Resolution of the soldiers of the Reserve Electrotechnical Battalion, printed 2 November 1917. Izvestiia, no. 215 (2 November 1917): 7.
116. Resolution of the Regimental Committee of the 20th Siberian Rifles, 6 November 1917. GARF, f. 1235, op. 1, d. 19, l. 15. Typed.
117. Appeal from the Extraordinary Congress of soldiers' committees of the 12th Army, 17-21 November 1917. Izvestiia, no. 231 (21 November 1917): 8.
118. Appeal from the soldiers' committee of the 1st Cavalry Corps, printed 30 November 1917. Izvestiia, no. 240 (30 November 1917): 7. Emphasis in original.
119. Appeal to soldiers from the soldiers' committee of the Volynsky Reserve Guard Regiment, Petrograd, printed 3 December 1917. Izvestiia, no. 243 (3 December 1917): 3.
120. Instruction from the soldiers' committee of the 22nd Infantry Division at the front to their delegate to the All-Russian Congress of Peasant Deputies, 2 January 1918. GARF, f. 1235, op. 2, d. 23, ll. 8-9. Typed copy.
121. Letter from a soldier in Petrograd to Lenin, 6 January 1918. GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d. 8, ll. 156-157ob (original continues to l. 159). Manuscript.
122. Letter from the front to Lenin,
received 15 January 1918. GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d. 8, ll. 121-122. Manuscript.
123. Resolution to the Main Land Committee in Petrograd from a village gathering in Kherson Province, 9 November 1917. GARF, f. 1796, op. 1, d. 71, l. 156. Manuscript.
124. Resolution from an uezd "peasant congress," 22 November 1917. GARF, f. 9550, op. 14, d. 1, l. 1. Printed leaflet.
125. Instruction (nakaz) to the Constituent Assembly from representatives of peasant communities, Voronezh Province, 27 November 1917. GARF, f. 1781, op. 1, d. 1, ll. 34-35. Manuscript. Ibid., ll. 36-36ob. Typed copy.
126. Instruction to the Constituent Assembly from citizens of Viazhishchensk
Volost, Petrograd Province, 31 December 1917. GARF, f. 1781, op. 1, d. 42, ll. 309-312ob. Manuscript.
127. Letter to Lenin from five peasants,
Moscow Province, received 7 January 1918. GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d. 8, l. 35.
Manuscript.
128. Letter to the Bolshevik leaders from a peasant, Orel Province, 10 January 1918. GARF, f. 1235, op. 140, d. 8, ll. 154-155ob. Manuscript (in red ink).
129. Resolution to the Constituent Assembly from peasants, Kursk Province, 13 January 1918. GARF, f. 1781, op. 1, d.42, l. 247. Manuscript.
130. Pyotr Oreshin, "What chasms to us have opened," 24 December 1917. Delo naroda, no. 241 (24 December 1917): 3. Ellipses in original.
131. Vladimir Kirillov, "To the Proletariat," January 1918. Griadushchee, no. 1 (January 1918): 3.
132. Aksen-Achkasov (Ilya Sadofiev),
"We Go On," January 1918. Griadushchee, no. 1 (January 1918):
2. Ellipses in original.
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