RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 485 484 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The separation of church and state was carried out all over Russia without any upheaval; the peasants have adopted civil marriage without much ado.
14. The class struggle was carried into the villages, the question of furnishing the inhabitants ...

482 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 483 Through the creation of Government and district soviets for the regulation of public affairs an organization for conducting the business of the people has been secured. These soviets are elected by the organizations of the workmen and employees ...

480 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 481 this purpose by the organs of the Soviet government, land committees and other democratic organizations.
VI.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Report on the accomplishments of the government of the Soviet Republic. The possession of the land is to be equal, the l...

478 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 479 27. In case the organization provided for in paragraph 25 should not accomplish, within a period of one month, the establishment of Unemployment Funds, such shall be established by order of the Labor Commissaires.
28. Infractions of the above sh...

476 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 477 or leaving their employ; b) to furnish detailed reports, on forms prepared by the Insurance Soviet, on the work done in their establishments, on the sum paid as wages to each and every person separately, on each receipt, weekly, from the day of ...

474 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 475 new application under the present statute; neither shall the publications of summons provided for in paragraphs and be required if publication was made under the former statute.
IV.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Ordinance issued by the Council of Peopl...

472 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 473 The entire income from each property that yields more than 750 rubles per month is immediately to be paid into the city treasury.
Pay for the rent of quarters, and other forms of income from real estate, is to be made to the house committees. Th...

470 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 471 National Bank, to which is also given the duty of proceeding at once with the registration of all owners of holdings in state loans, and also other papers bearing interest, whether or not subject to annulment.
11. Soviets of Workers. Soldiers an...

468 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 469 commissioners of the National Bank, and all holdings found in them will be confiscated by the National Bank as the property of the people. Note: The investigating commissions may, for weighty reasons, postpone the above liquidation.
This decree ...

466 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 467 sian republic through specially organized organs. All foreign transactions not known to these organs are prohibited. Note Regulations governing exports and imports by parcel post and of personal baggage will be issued separately. Article The Peo...

464 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA 465 (11) Workmen District Councils of Control settle all disputes and conflicts between the lower Organs of Control, as well as all complaints made by the owners of undertakings, taking into consideration any peculiar conditions under which producti...

462 463 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA by the Soviet officials; and it is a task, international complications aside, upon the success of which depends the immediate success of the proletarian revolution and the Socialist Republic in Russia.
The proletarian revolution in Russia initia...

460 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 461 measures.
in any sense final, although latent in the general tendency of the While the representation on the local and district organs of control is industrial, the whole system functions territorially and is not yet wholly and integrally indust...

458 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 459 sion of the masses, its bureaucracy, and its anti proletarian character. The new state is the state of the organized producers; as the old state was an instrument for the coercion of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, so the new state is an ins...

456 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 457 Capitalism. The revolutionary Socialist assumes that the process must be a revolutionary process operating upon the basis of the proletarian state a process of reconstruction which alone annihilates Capitalism and introduces Socialism. Moreover,...

454 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 455 Reconstruction in Russia resentative of the Finnish Workers Republic, am officially sending your Government a proposition of mediation between America and the Russian Soviets. Not that for a moment believe that such a proposition will be enterta...

452 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 453 everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for any real radical to stick to those hopes!
But if the world war is to end in an alliance of imperialistic Germany and the Allies against radicalisni and socialism all over the world, if the ...

451 AN OPEN LETTER 450 THE CLASS STRUGGLE thing to your society, even when the greatest class issues are involved. have been trying to do a work of persuasion, employing all possible tactfulness and consideration of the pecularities of the situation and of your psychology. have been doing it in t...

449 AN OPEN LETTER 448 THE CLASS STRUGGLE the situation, and, therefore, should be more able to retain your faculty of clear judgment, would advise them, or at least not encourage them in their blind class rebellion against forces that are unsurmountable?
But nothing at all is heard from you, nor...

446 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 447 want in Russia is the crushing of the Soviet Government as such, regardless of the fact that it is anti German and regardless of all proofs of its constructive ability. As the Soviet Government obviously is supported by the great majority of the people, y...

444 445 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER lack the strength to perform in a year a task a thousandfold more difficult than that which you could not perform in less than ten years, and under immensely more favorable circumstances.
Where is your reputed fairness, you Americans. Where is your sense ...

AN OPEN LETTER 443 442 THE CLASS STRUGGLE It is true, of course, that the action of the Allies in Russia, encouraging every faction which is against the Soviets, may in the long run produce a state of complete anarchy. Enemies of the Russian Soviet Government do not hesitate to employ the most de...

440 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 441 of the greatest revolution in the world, down to the deepest hell as betrayers and traitors to liberty and progress. But still more possible is another outcome. Either the Czecho Slovaks will successfully perform the work they are asked to do to day, and,...

438 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 439 Allies naturally suspected every approach on the part of the Bolsheviki as an effort to obtain information for the German army. But even that is no excuse at all. For more than a year the press has been shouting that Lenine and Trotzky are paid agents of ...

436 THE CLASS STRUGGLE AN OPEN LETTER 437 and German reaction at that, is being encouraged and the democratic anti German masses discouraged, while in Russia the workers republic, which is anti German and democratic, is attacked, and any one is encouraged who is against the Soviets, whether he be...