_ The following
are the Orders of the Day:
1. The power of the Constituent Assembly.
2. The fight for the general democratic peace and the re-establishment
of the International.
3. The immediate problems of the policy of the Soviets.
Comrades! Assure for this extraordinary assembly of Soviets the
most complete representation of all the organizations of workmen
and soldiers. Establish at once election centers. We have a fight
to uphold.
In the name of the Revolution, all the reason and all the energy
ought to be thrown into the balance.
THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF SOVIETS OF WORKMEN'S AND
SOLDIERS' DELEGATES CHOSEN AT THE FIRST ELECTIONS.
_25 December, 1917._
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_The Manifestation of January 5th at Petrograd_
From eleven o'clock in the morning corteges, composed principally of
working-men bearing red flags and placards with inscriptions such as
"Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!" "Land and Liberty!" "Long Live the
Constituent Assembly!" etc., set out from different parts of the city. The
members of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Peasants' Delegates
had agreed to meet at the Field, of Mars where a procession coming from the
Petrogradsky quarter was due to arrive.
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