A few days after the Bolshevist coup, in November, 1917, the Bolsheviki closed down, among others, the organ of the Mensheviki-Internationalists, _Rabochaya Gazeta_; the central organ of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionists, _Dyelo Naroda_; the _Volia Naroda_, published by Catherine Breshkovsky; the _Yedinstvo_, published by George Plechanov; the _Russkaya Volia_, published by Leonid Andreiev; the _Narodnoye Slovo_, the organ of the People’s Socialists, and the _Dien_, published by the well-known Social-Democrat, Alexander Potresov. The printing-presses which belonged to Andreiev were confiscated and his paper, _Russkaya Volia, never again appeared under any other name_. The editor-in-chief of the _Volia Naroda_--the newspaper published by Catherine Breshkovsky--A. Agunov, was incarcerated by the Bolsheviki in the Fortress of Saints Peter and Paul and this paper was _never able to appear again, even under a changed name_. The offices of the _Dyelo Naroda_ were for a time guarded by groups of armed soldiers in sympathy with the Party of Socialists-Revolutionists, and notwithstanding all orders by the Commissary of the Press to cease publication, the Socialists-Revolutionists managed from time to time to issue their newspapers, in irregular form, under one name or another. But the copies of the paper would be confiscated from the newsdealers immediately upon their appearance, and the newsboys who risked the selling of it were subjected to unbelievable persecutions. There were even cases when the sellers of these “seditious” Socialist papers were shot by the Bolsheviki. These facts were recorded by every newspaper which appeared from time to time in those days in Petrograd and Moscow. The _Dien_ (_Day_) did not appear at all for some time after its suppression. Later there appeared in its place the _Polnotch_ (_Midnight_), which was immediately suppressed for publishing an exposé of the Bolshevist Commissary, Lieutenant Schneuer, an ex-provocateur of the Tzar’s government and a German spy, the same Schneuer who conducted negotiations with the German command for an armistice, and who later, together with Krylenko, led the orgy called “the capture of the General Headquarters,” in the course of which General Dukhonine, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, was brutally murdered and mutilated for his refusal to conclude an armistice with the Germans.