Bolshevik Conditions for other Socialists
Bolshevik Conditions of Agreement with the other Socialists. November 15, 1917
Original Source: Izvestiia, No. 214, 15 November 1917, p. 5.
Agreement with other Socialist parties is desirable on the following terms:
Acceptance of the program of the Soviet Government as expressed in the decrees of land and peace and the two projects on workers' control.
Unrelenting war against counter-revolution (Kerenskii, Kornilov, Kaledin).
Acceptance of the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies with the participation of peasants as the only source of authority.
The government to be responsible to the Central Executive Committee.
No admission into the Central Executive Committee of organizations not represented in the Soviet.
To enlarge the Central Executive Committee by admitting the following organizations: Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', and Peasants' Deputies (not yet represented); All-Russian trade union organizations, such as the Council of Trade Unions, Soviet of Factory-Shop Committees; Vikzhel and Post-Telegraph Union; All-Russian Soviet of Peasants' Deputies, on condition of and only after there has been a new election. The same is to apply to all those army organizations that have held no elections in the course of the last three months.
Source: James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, ed., Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1918; Documents and Materials (Stanford: Stanford University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934), p. 197.