(Izvestya, July 28, 1918.)_
KAZAN, _August 1_. The state of mind of the workmen is
revolutionary. _If the Mensheviki dare to carry on their
propaganda, death menaces them. (Idem, August 3.)_
And here is confirmation from another official organ of the Bolsheviki,
_Pravda_:
KAZAN, _August 4th_. The Provisional Congress of the
Soviets of the Peasants has been dissolved because of the absence
from it of poor peasants and _because its state of mind is
obviously counter-revolutionary. (Pravda, August 6, 1918.)_
As early as April, 1918, the Soviet at Jaroslav was dissolved by the
Bolshevik authorities and new elections ordered.[41] In these elections
the Mensheviki and the Socialist-Revolutionists everywhere gained an
absolute majority.[42] The population here wanted the Constituent Assembly
and they wanted Russia to fight on with the Allies. Attempts to suppress
this majority led to insurrection, which the Bolsheviki crushed in the most
brutal manner, and when the people, overpowered and helpless, sought to
make peace, the Bolsheviki only _increased the artillery fire_! Here is an
"Official Bulletin," published in _Izvestya_, July 21, 1918:
At Jaroslav the adversary, gripped in the iron ring of our troops,
has tried to enter into negotiations.
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