The Menshevik Dan
carries a resolution in the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets providing, “Any person indicted by
the courts is deprived of membership in the Executive Committee until sentence
is pronounced.” This of course would apply only to Bolsheviks, and specifically
to Lenin and Zinoviev. Kerensky took this opportunity to shut down
the Bolshevik press, which had resurfaced after the smashing of Pravda’s printing presses at the end of
the July Days.
The Bolshevik
press no longer existing, Trotsky prevailed on the author Maxim Gorky’s paper
to print an open letter to the government. He said the decree under which Lenin
and others were subject to arrest applied with equal force to himself. We’ll
see the result in the sequel.
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