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Rh Only the walls screamed, and the few newspapers; denunciation, appeal, decree…

An enormous poster carried the hysterical manifesto of the Executive Committee of the Peasants’ Soviets:

From the Soldier Section of the Socialist Revolutionary party:

In a hand-bill the Council of the Republic recited its wrongs:

Ceding to the force of bayonets, the Council of the Republic has been obliged to separate, and temporarily to interrupt its meetings.

The usurpers, with the words “Liberty and Socialism” on their lips, have set up a rule of arbitrary violence. They have arrested the members of the Provisional Government, closed the newspapers, seized the printing-shops… This power must be considered the enemy of the people and the Revolution; it is necessary to do battle with it, and to pull it down…