were closed by their owners.
The war dragaed on, bringing in its wake starvation Only half of the loodtrainsarrived at the trocit. The transport system had collapsed. In certain areas only hail of Hr TERLAS ACTE IN WOEKIA In the cities bread and sugar were LH DESBETRECI SADIL SUEDIY The Provisional Coveroment, now Incudine Vicusbowk members of the Soviet Executive had declared it would solve these problems. Instead they became warse. attempted to impose law order', to prepare a new offensive at the front and stop land seizures All Chese moves Tan into roadblock ofthe workers, soldiers and poor peasants determined to overthrow all the reinants of Tsarism.
The Soviet Executive camie up with a surprisingly radical soll tion to the economic crisis. l comissioned a programme from is economic deparment which in cruded "a state trade monopoly':
trusts CELDEl meas. sugar, paper), and participation oEthe state in the distribution of raw materials and finished prod orse an d ate ulle conlon af ucts. And also Lhe LLEDOn credit institutions.
Lenin considered this programme excellest, but pointed out that the Executive had no intention of mobilising the workers to implemcat il. The plan was passed to the despite the presence of sove represa lives had no intentioo of even discussing it.
The Goverrubent hought up our of Petrograd. For the bosses TT ONE CITO SERC CHILTE Firstly, it would minimise their loss in the event of the complete collapse of the war effort. ondly, they could move pearer the supplies of raw materials. Thirdly. and most imposants, by movin! the laccories the Petrograd workers and soliers mauld be braken and spread throughout the COITEEY For months the ruling class had As the Russian Revolution passed into Its fourth month, the crisis racking society deepened. The economy. already in achronic state, drifted aimlessiy as the bosses preferred sabotage to revolution. Old machinery was not replaced. Productivity fell. In May alone 108 factories these proposals would have met with determined refusal from the workers and soldiers.
The sailors of Kronstadt became the advanced outpost of the revolutionary masses. The Soviet in Kronstadr, the island fortress in the approaches to Petrograd, met on 13 May. They docided: 'The sole power in Kronstadt is IEC SOVET DAKECSAIO SAECK deputies.' The Kadet commissar had and Pepelyacy was removed; caro playing baoned, brothels close ETUISCHRSS SHIHCE CHIE All this did not please the Goverement and their mentors Teeretelli and Skobeler.
Executiveof the Petrograd Soviet Tsereselli demanded the release of HD Tsarist officers held in the fortress. The sailors replied: "And if we keep che eemies of the people in those prisons it is not al vengeance, but Sec considerations of a revolutionary sell-preservation.* Despite being derended by Trotsky the Petrograd Sowier Tenne eSO DUOSSO 162. The Government cut off links WIRE Congress threatened to end food supplies. With the help of troc release of the officers employing 40,000 people, Social Revolutionaries t0 quarters of the vores.
the barracks grouping:
Such as Perm, Toln LEICE CAME Irons not take place Odessa in the Ukraine no independent organisation Bolsheviks In PERSRE neIr-acoR The influence of the Bolsheviks WaS grOWinE. The Puttiov lactory.
had passed from the influence of the INC RS UF Cor Enc ard meeting of the Petrograd factors and shop conittees the Bolsheviks resolutions won over three It was in the factory committees, who were faced with the day-to-day problems of sabotage by the bosses, that the influence of the Communists grew the quick est. 10 of the Volynsky, Egersky and Licovsky regiments it was Lenin'sparty hat now had the ear of the soldiers. Between April DUTY SOLICIIS1S andtbeendot June the Balsheviks in Petrograd doubled their numb- ErLIBE SLOu U Silut loe le lections for the Moscow Sowiei the Bolsheviks bocame the largest inburg, che Bolsheviks had with the Men leviks, whilein Bakuthissplit di until the end af Tune. The position in places. like was even worse in that the Belsbeviks had History was on the side of the reality, through masses were maving closer to the line of march of Lenin's April Theses. As Lenin loppage. The Kilkeel compo the Ulster Defence Regime Action BOUnCEnKB Now in most armies mutineers are shot. But not in this cese The top braas of the UDR rushed to Kilkeel to give the mutineers CARCO OI BENUTANCO NOE ITO would only be used against the anti-Unionists mant of the British Army is Tor So now It's s official. A uso gaines connorice omyTO
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