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Stalin School of Falsification - Chapter 14
"The most urgent and important task of the Sovicts, the fulfillment of which will alone guarantee the
victory over all the forces of counter-revolution and the further development and deepening of the
revolution, is, in the opinion of the party, the universal arming of the people, and, in particular, the
immediate creation of Workers' Red Guards throughout the entire land."
"Whereas
RESOLUTION OF THE KRASNOYARSK SOVIET OF WORKERS', SOLDIERS' AND
COSSACKS' DEPUTIES
"1) the revolutionary overturn has been achieved by the working class and the Army representing the
revolutionary peasantry,
"2) the Provisional Government expresses the demands of the Russian imperialist belligerent bourgeoisie
and not the demands of the proletariat and the revolutionary peasantry,
"3) the clash between the demands of the imperialist hour geosie and the demands of the working class
and the peasantry in the revolution is inevitable in the future inasmuch as the bourgeoisie will seek to
defend its own interests against the interests of the working class and the revolutionary peasantry,
"The Krasnoyarsk Soviet of Workers', Soldiers' and Cossacks' Deputies resolves:
"1) to recognize as urgent that it be made clear to the broad layers of the working class, the Army and the
peas antry that the Provisional Government in its composition expresses the interests of the imperialist
bourgeoisie and not those of the people; that it is incapable of cobperating in carrying the present
revolution through to the fulfillment of the basic demands of the proletariat and the revolutionary
peasantry;
"2) to make entirely clear that the on!y source of the power and the authority of the Provisional
Government is the will of the people who have accomplished this revolution and to whom the
Provisional GovernmeDt is obliged wholly to submit;
"3) to make likewise clear that the submission of the Pro visional Government to the basic demands of
the revolution can be secured only by the unrelaxing pressure of the prole tariat, the peasantry and the
revolutionary Army, who must with unremitting energy maintain their organization around the Soviets of
Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies born out of the revolution, in order to transform the latter into the ter
rible force of the revolutionary people;
"4) to support the Provisional Government in its activ ities only in so far as it follows a course of
satisfying the demands of the working ejass and the revolutionary peasantry in the revolution that is
taking place."
The resolution of the Moscow District Committee is next read. It was not among the documents.
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VOITINSKV (co-reporter) : Leaving aside the contradic tions, a!l three resolutions express one and the
same view of the Provisiona! Government: The monarchist Guchkov arrests the monarch; the monarchist
Miliukov becomes a member of the republican Provisional Government. Among the members of the
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