The following classes of newspapers shall be subject to closure:
(a) Those inciting to open resistance or disobedience to the Workers’
and Peasants’ Government; (b) Those creating confusion by obviously
and deliberately perverting the news; (c) Those inciting to acts of a
criminal character punishable by the laws.
2. The temporary or permanent closing of any organ of the press shall
be carried out only by virtue of a resolution of the Council of
People’s Commissars.
3. The present decree is of a temporary nature, and will be revoked
by a special _ukaz_ when normal conditions of public life are
re-established.
_President of the Council of People’s Commissars,_
VLADIMIR ULIANOV (LENIN).
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_On Workers’ Militia_
1. All Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies shall form a
Workers’ Militia.
2. This Workers’ Militia shall be entirely at the orders of the
Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies.
3. Military and civil authorities must render every assistance in
arming the workers and in supplying them with technical equipment,
even to the extent of requisitioning arms belonging to the War
Department of the Government.
4. This decree shall be promulgated by telegraph. Petrograd, November
10, 1917.
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