Signed by the Council of the Russian Republic, the Municipal Duma of Petrograd, the _Tsay-ee-kah (First Congress),_ the Executive Committee of the Peasants’ Soviets, and from the Congress itself the Front group, the factions of Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviki, Populist Socialists, Unified Social Democrats, and the group “Yedinstvo.” Then posters from the Socialist Revolutionary party, the Mensheviki _oborontsi,_ Peasants’ Soviets again; from the Central Army Committee, the _Tsentroflot_…. … Famine will crush Petrograd! (they cried). The German armies will trample on our liberty. Black Hundred _pogroms_ will spread over Russia, if we all—conscious workers, soldiers, citizens—do not unite…. Do not trust the promises of the Bolsheviki! The promise of immediate peace—is a lie! The promise of bread—a hoax! The promise of land—a fairy tale!… They were all in this manner. Comrades! You have been basely and cruelly deceived! The seizure of power has been accomplished by the Bolsheviki alone…. They concealed their plot from the other Socialist parties composing the Soviet…. You have been promised land and freedom, but the counter-revolution will profit by the anarchy called forth by the Bolsheviki, and will deprive you of land and freedom…. The newspapers were as violent. Our duty (said the _Dielo Naroda_) is to unmask these traitors to the working-class. Our duty is to mobilise all our forces and mount guard over the cause of the Revolution!… _Izviestia,_ for the last time speaking in the name of the old _Tsay-ee-kah,_ threatened awful retribution. As for the Congress of Soviets, we affirm that there has been no Congress of Soviets! We affirm that it was merely a private conference of the Bolshevik faction! And in that case, they have no right to cancel the powers of the _Tsay-ee-kah_…. _Novaya Zhizn,_ while pleading for a new Government that should unite all the Socialist parties, criticised severely the action of the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Mensheviki in quitting the Congress, and pointed out that the Bolshevik insurrection meant one thing very clearly: that all illusions about coalition with the bourgeoisie were henceforth demonstrated vain… _Rabotchi Put_ blossomed out as _Pravda,_ Lenin’s newspaper which had been suppressed in July. It crowed, bristling: Workers, soldiers, peasants! In March you struck down the tyranny of the clique of nobles. Yesterday you struck down the tyranny of the bourgeois gang…. The first task now is to guard the approaches to Petrograd. The second is definitely to disarm the counter-revolutionary elements of Petrograd. The third is definitely to organise the revolutionary power and assure the realisation of the popular programme…