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 issue and has destroyed all chances of settling in a formal democratic way the acute problems raised by history before the peoples of Russia and more particularly before the Russian working-class and peasantry.

(14) Only a complete victory of the workers and peasants over the bourgeois and landlord rebellion (as illustrated by the movement of the Cadets and Kaledinites), only a ruthless military suppression of these revolting slave owners can practically safeguard the proletarian and peasant revolution. The course of events and the development of the class struggle in the revolution has brought about such a condition of affairs that the slogan "All power to the Constituent Assembly,” which takes no account of the conquests of the workers' and peasants' revolution or of the Soviet authority, and of the decision of the Second All-Russian Congress of Peasant Delegates, etc., has in practice become the slogan of the Cadets and Kaledinites, and of their myrmidons. It is becoming clear to the entire people that this slogan practically proclaims a war for the overthrow of the Soviet authority, and that the Constituent Assembly, if it parted company with the Soviet authority, would inevitably be condemned to political death.

(15) Among the most, urgents problems of our people's life is the problem of peace. The real revolutionary struggle for peace began in Russia only after the victory of the revolution on November 6th, and the first fruits of this victory were the "publication of the secret treaties, the conclusion of an armistice, and the beginning of public negotiations for a general peace without annexations or indemnities. Only now the wide popular masses have a chance to witness the policy of a revolutionary struggle for peace, and to study its results. At the time of the elections to the Constituent Assembly, the popular masses were deprived of such a chance. Hence, from this point of view also, the discrepancy, between the position of the