Chapter VII. The Establishment of the Soviet Power
Contents
- Attitude of the American and other governments toward the Bolshevik
régime—Interviews of the American military attaché and Red Cross
representative with Trotsky—Decrees abolishing private ownership of real
estate—The beginnings of civil war—Elections to the Constituent
Assembly—The Kalpashnikov incident (Documents 247–327)
- Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly—Assumption of definite control
by the All-Russian Soviet Congress—Proclamation of the Soviet
republic—The “Sisson
documents” (Documents 328–378)
- Resumption of hostilities by the Germans—Removal of the American
Embassy to Vologda—President Wilson’s message to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets,
March 11, 1918 (Documents 379–409)