Formation of the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies
Provisional Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies, Proclamations. March 12, 1917
Original Source: Izvestiia komiteta petrogradskikh zhurnalistov, No. 1, 12 March 1917.
The Soviet of Workers' Deputies resolved to address the following proclamations to the inhabitants:
I. CITIZENS: The representatives of the workers, soldiers, and inhabitants of Petrograd, meeting in the State Duma, announce that the first session of their representatives will take place at seven o'clock tonight in the building of the State Duma. All those troops that have joined the side of the people should immediately elect their representatives, one for each company. Factory workers should elect one deputy for each one thousand. Factories with less than one thousand workers should elect one deputy each. The Provisional Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers' Deputies
II. CITIZENS: The soldiers who have joined the side of the people have been in the streets since morning without food. The Soviet of Deputies, workers, soldiers, and inhabitants are making every effort to feed the soldiers. But it is hard to organize the food supply at once. The Soviet appeals to you, citizens, to feed the soldiers as best you can.
Source: Frank Golder, ed., Documents of Russian History, 1914-1917 (New York: The Century Co., 1927), pp. 285-286.