The soviets of
Reval (now Tallinn), the capital of Estonia and the next line of defense if the
Germans should decide to march on Petrograd, demand that the Pre-Parliament
disband and that a congress of soviets be called to form the government. This
was one of a number of similar resolutions in a battle of resolutions between
the Bolsheviks and the Compromisers on the Central Executive Committee.
On another front,
the resolution also demanded that the soviets must agree to troop transfers.
This policy would prevent, for example, the government from transferring troops
loyal to the revolution out of the Petrograd garrison. It was to become an
issue as the Bolsheviks prepared for insurrection. In theory, Trotsky observes,
the maintenance and deployment of armed forces is a fundamental right of the
state. But the policy the resolution advocates had been a feature of the dual
government
since the February Revolution. Now it was becoming a feature of
preparation for insurrection.
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