Arrest and Shooting of Counter Revolutionaries
Orders for the Arrest of Counter Revolutionaries. February 22, 1918
Original Source: Pravda, No. 33, 23 February 1918, p. 1
To All Soviets
... The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Speculation asks local Soviets to proceed at once to seek out, arrest, and shoot immediately all members ... connected in one form or another with counter-revolutionary organizations ... (1) agents of enemy spies, (2) counter-revolutionary agitators, (3) speculators, (4) organizers of revolts ... against the Soviet Government, (5) those going to the Don to join the Kaledin-Kornilov band and the Polish counter-revolutionary legions, (6) buyers and sellers of arms to be used by the counterrevolutionary bourgeoisie -all these are to be shot on the spot ... when caught red-handed in the act.
The All-Russian Cheka
[Order of March 27, 1918]
The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution ... request all members of the House of Romanov living in Moscow to appear before the Commission at Lubianka No. 11, on March 29, 1918, for the purpose of registration.
Those who fail to appear will be declared counter-revolutionists, arrested, and handed over to the court.
Aleksandrovich, Chairman of the Commission
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. 576.