This declaration was to be read at the Taurida Palace when the
Soviets were in congress by delegates designated for that purpose. The
Bolsheviki, however, would not permit the delegates to enter the Taurida
Palace.
Here are the texts of the declaration and of the proces-verbal:
At the Third National Congress of Soviets of Peasants' Delegates
grouped around the principle of the defense of the Constituent
Assembly, this declaration was sent to the Congress of Workmen's,
Soldiers' and Peasants' Delegates called together by the
Bolshevist government at the Taurida Palace:
At the Second National Peasants' Congress the 359 delegates who
had come together for the defense of the Constituent Assembly
continued the work of the Congress and elected a provisional
Executive Committee, independently of the 354 delegates who had
opposed the power of the Constituent Assembly and adhered to the
Bolsheviki.
We, peasant delegates, having come to Petrograd, more than 300 in
number, to participate in a Congress called by the Provisional
Executive Committee, which is that of those of the Soviets which
acknowledge the principle of the defense of the Constituent
Assembly, declare to our electors, to the millions of the peasant
population, and to the whole country, that the actual government
which is called "The Government of the Peasants and Workmen" has
established in their integrity the violence, the arbitrariness,
and all the horrors of the autocratic regime which was overthrown
by the great Revolution of February.
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