Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

562 NOTES128129130talks were postponed for five days to give the Allied Governmentsanother chance to make known their attitude on the peace proposal.On November 15 (28), the Soviet Government issued itsappeal to the governments and peoples of all the belligerent countriesurging them to join in the peace negotiations. There was noreply from the Allied powers.On November 19 (December 2), a Soviet peace delegation ledby A. A. Ioffe arrived in the neutral zone and proceeded to Brest-Litovsk, where it met a delegation of the Austro- Hungarian blocwhich included representatives of Bulgaria and Turkey. A 10- dayceasefire was arranged as a result of the talks of November 20- 22(December 3- 5). The Soviet Government took the opportunityto try to turn the separate talks with Germany into negotiationsfor a general democratic peace. On November 24 (December 7)it sent another note to the Entente ambassadors inviting themto join in the talks. This note was also ignored. On December 2 (15),the talks were resumed and that same day a 28- day ceasefire wasagreed upon. It provided for a peace conference, which opened atBrest-Litovsk on December 9 (22). p. 325Placed before the All- Russia Central Executive Committee onNovember 21 (December 4), 1917, by the Bolshevik group. Theneed for such a decree was substantiated by Lenin (see pp. 338- 40).The right of recall was in principle upheld by a majority of theCommittee; two members voted against, and one abstained. Thedraft was referred to a Co- ordinating Committee with the participationof Left Socialist- Revolutionaries. It introduced amendmentsto Lenin’s draft, in which the right to appoint elections was vestedin congresses of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’Deputies (instead of the Soviets themselves), while the Sovietswere empowered to appoint elections upon the demand of morethan half the electorate in a given electoral district. The draftworked out by the Co- ordinating Committee was unanimouslyadopted by the All- Russia Central Executive Committee andpublished in Izvestia No. 233 on November 23 (December 6).Under it several peasants’ and army congresses passed decisionsrecalling deputies from the Constituent Assembly. Theywere Cadets, Right Socialist- Revolutionaries and Mensheviks.including Avksentyev, Gots, Milyukov, and others. p. 336The reference is to the Extraordinary All- Russia Congress of Sovietsof Peasants’ Deputies held from November 10 to 25 (November 23to December 8), 1917. See Note 124. p. 339The First All- Russia Congress of the Navy was held at Petrogradfrom November 18 to 25 (December 1 to 8), 1917. On its agendawere the following items: the current situation and the questionof power; the activity of the Central Committee of the Navy;reforms in the Navy Department, etc. It was addressed by Lenin,who spoke on the current situation. It discussed the activity ofTsentroflot which had betrayed its electors, and endorsed the