The Bolsheviki have fixed the 5th of January for the opening of the Constituent Assembly; for the 8th of January they call the III Congress of the Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, and for the 13th the Peasant Congress.
The peasants are, by design, relegated to the background.
An outrage against the Constituent Assembly is being prepared.
In this historic moment the peasants cannot remain aloof.
The Provisional Executive Committee of the National Soviet of Peasants' Delegates, which goes on duty as a guard to the Constituent Assembly, has decided to call, on the 8th of January, also, the Third National Congress of the Soviets of Peasants' Delegates. The representation remains the same as before. Send your delegates at once to Petrograd, Grand Bolotnai, 2A.
The fate of the Constituent Assembly is the fate of Russia, the fate of the Revolution.
All up for the defense of the Constituent Assembly, for the defense of the Revolution—not by word alone, but by acts!
[Signed] The Provisional Executive Committee of the National Soviet of Peasants' Delegates, upholding the principle of the defense of the Constituent Assembly.
Appeal of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, Chosen at the First Elections
To all the Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, to all the Committees of the Army and of the Navy, to all the organizations associated with the Soviets and Committees, to all the members of the Socialist-Revolutionist and Menshevist Social Democratic fractions who left the Second Congress of Soviets: