The hastily
formed committee of the workers met and decided to call on the workmen to
hold immediate elections for the Council of Workmen's Deputies--the first
meeting of which was to be held that evening. That this was a perilous
thing to do the history of the First Revolution clearly showed, but no
other course seemed open to the workers, in view of the attitude of the
bourgeoisie. On behalf of the Duma Committee, Rodzianko issued the
following proclamation:
The Provisional Committee of the members of the Imperial Duma,
aware of the grave conditions of internal disorder created by the
measure of the old government, has found itself compelled to take
into its hands the re-establishment of political and civil order.
In full consciousness of the responsibility of its decision, the
Provisional Committee expresses its trust that the population and
the army will help it in the difficult task of creating a new
government which will comply with the wishes of the population,
and be able to enjoy its confidence.
MICHAIL RODZIANKO, _Speaker of the Imperial Duma_.
February 27, 1917.[4]
That night the first formal session of the Council of Workmen's Deputies
was held.
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