Expulsion of Right Socialist Parties
All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets, Expulsion of Right Socialist Parties. June 14, 1918
Original Source: Sobranie uzakonenii i rasporiazhenii raboche-krestian'skogo pravitel'stva, 1918, No. 44, p. 538.
Taking into consideration that:
The Soviet Government is living through its most difficult period, having to withstand at the same time the attacks of international imperialism... and those of its allies within the Russian Republic, who spare no means, from the most shameless' calumny to conspiracy and armed uprisings, in the struggle against the Workers' and Peasants' Government.
The presence in Soviet organization of representatives of parties which are obviously endeavoring to discredit and overthrow the Soviet Government is absolutely intolerable.
From previously published documents, as well as from those cited at the present meeting, it is clear that representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionists (of the Right and Center) and the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Menshevik)... are guilty of organizing armed attacks against the workers and peasants, in association with notorious counter-revolutionists -- on the Don with Kaledin and Kornilov, in the Urals with Dutov, in Siberia with Semenov, Horvath and Kolchak, and recently with the Czechoslovaks...
The All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets resolves:
To exclude from its membership the representatives of the Socialist-Revolutionists (of the Right and Center) and the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Menshevik), and to urge all Soviets of Workers', Soldiers', Peasants' and Cossacks' Deputies to remove representatives of these parties from their ranks.
Ia. Sverdlov Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
Source: Memorandum on the Bolshevist or Communist Party in Russia (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920), p. 17.