In the first week of October, 1917, Novaya Zhizn published the following comparative table of election results, pointing out that this meant the bankruptcy of the policy of Coalition with the propertied classes. “If civil war can yet be avoided, it can only be done by a united front of all the revolutionary democracy….”
Elections for the Moscow Central and Ward Dumas.
| June 1917 | September 1917 | |
| Socialist Revolutionaries | 58 Members | 14 Members |
| Cadets | 17 Members | 30 Members |
| Mensheviki | 12 Members | 4 Members |
| Bolsheviki | 11 Members | 47 Members |
5.
GROWING ARROGANCE OF THE REACTIONARIES
September 18th. The Cadet Shulgin, writing in a Kiev newspaper, said that the Provisional Government’s declaration that Russia was a Republic constituted a gross abuse of its powers. “We cannot admit either a Republic, or the present Republican Government…. And we are not sure that we want a Republic in Russia….”
October 23d. At a meeting of the Cadet party held at Riazan, M. Dukhonin declared, “On March 1st we must establish a Constitutional Monarchy. We must not reject the legitimate heir to the throne, Mikhail Alexandrovitch….”
October 27th. Resolution passed by the Conference of Business Men at Moscow:
“The Conference… insists that the Provisional Government take the following immediate measures in the Army:
“1. Forbidding of all political propaganda; the Army must be out of politics.
“2. Propaganda of antinational and international ideas and theories deny the necessity for armies, and hurt discipline; it should be forbidden, and all propagandists punished….