Arrest of Counter-Revolutionary Cadets

Council of People's Commissars, Decree on the Arrest of Leaders of the Civil War Against the Revolution. December 11, 1917

Original Source: Izvestiia, 12 December 1917.

Members of the leading bodies of the Constitutional-Democratic (Cadet) Party, which is a party of enemies of the people, shall be arrested and brought before revolutionary tribunals.

Local Soviets are instructed to exercise special surveillance over the Cadets in view of their association with the Kornilov-Kaledin civil war against the revolution.

This decree enters into effect from the time of signing.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, VL. UL'IANOV (LENIN).

People's Commissars: N. AVILOV (N. GLEBOV), P. STUCHKA, V. MENZHINSKII, DZHUGASHVILI-STALIN, G. PETROVSKII, A. SCHLICHTER, P. DYBENKO.

Business Manager of the Council of People's Commissars, VLAD. BONCH-BRUEVICH.
Secretary of the Council, N. GORBUNOV.
Petrograd, November 28, 1917, 10:30 p.m.

Source: Decrees of the Soviet Government (Moscow: Institute of Marxism-Leninism, 1957), Vol. I, p. 162.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth