The peasants are, by design, relegated to the background.
An outrage against the Constituent Assembly is being prepared.
In this historic moment the peasants cannot remain aloof.
The Provisional Executive Committee of the National Soviet of
Peasants' Delegates, which goes on duty as a guard to the
Constituent Assembly, has decided to call, on the 8th of January,
also, the Third National Congress of the Soviets of Peasants'
Delegates. The representation remains the same as before. Send
your delegates at once to Petrograd, Grand Bolotnai, 2A.
The fate of the Constituent Assembly is the fate of Russia, the
fate of the Revolution.
All up for the defense of the Constituent Assembly, for the
defense of the Revolution--not by word alone, but by acts!
[Signed] _The Provisional Executive Committee of the National
Soviet of Peasants' Delegates, upholding the principle of the
defense of the Constituent Assembly_.
APPEAL OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOVIETS OF
WORKMEN'S AND SOLDIERS' DELEGATES, CHOSEN AT THE FIRST
ELECTIONS
To all the Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, to all
the Committees of the Army and of the Navy, to all the
organizations associated with the Soviets and Committees, to all
the members of the Socialist-Revolutionist and Menshevist Social
Democratic fractions who left the Second Congress of Soviets:
Comrades, workmen, and soldiers! Our cry of alarm is addressed to
all those to whom the work of the Soviets is dear.
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