ACTS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’s COMMISSARS
In this book I am giving only such decrees as are in my opinion
pertinent to the Bolshevik conquest of power. The rest belong to a
detailed account of the Structure of the Soviet State, for which I
have no place in this work. This will be dealt with very fully in the
second volume, now in preparation, “Kornilov to Brest-Litovsk.”
_Concerning Dwelling-Places_
1. The independent Municipal Self-Governments have the right to
sequestrate all unoccupied or uninhabited dwelling-places.
2. The Municipalities may, according to laws and arrangements
established by them, install in all available lodgings citizens who
have no place to live, or who live in congested or unhealthy lodgings.
3. The Municipalities may establish a service of inspection of
dwelling-places, organise it and define its powers.
4. The Municipalities may issue orders on the institution of House
Committees, define their organisation, their powers and give them
juridical authority.
5. The Municipalities may create Housing Tribunals, define their
powers and their authority.
6. This decree is promulgated by telegraph.
_People’s Commissar of the Interior,_
A. I. RYKOV.
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_On Social Insurance_
The Russian proletariat has inscribed on its banners the promise of
complete Social Insurance of wage-workers, as well as of the town and
village poor.
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