..."
Karelin, for the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, declared that his
party would vote for the Bolshevik resolution, reserving the right
to modify certain details, such as the representation of the
peasants, and demanding that the Ministry of Agriculture be reserved
for the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. This was agreed to....
Later, at a meeting of the Petrograd Soviet, Trotzky answered a
question about the formation of the new Government:
"I don't know anything about that. I am not taking part in the
negotiations.... However, I don't think that they are of great
importance...."
That night there was great uneasiness in the Conference. The
delegates of the City Duma withdrew....
But at Smolny itself, in the ranks of the Bolshevik party, a
formidable opposition to Lenin's policy was growing. On the night of
November 17th the great hall was packed and ominous for the meeting
of the _Tsay-ee-kah._
Larin, Bolshevik, declared that the moment of elections to the
Constituent Assembly approached, and it was time to do away with
"political terrorism."
"The measures taken against the freedom of the press should be
modified. They had their reason during the struggle, but now they
have no further excuse. The press should be free, except for appeals
to riot and insurrection."
In a storm of hisses and hoots from his own party, Larin offered the
following resolution:
The decree of the Council of People's Commissars concerning the
Press is herewith repealed.
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