[35] See the Rakitnikov Memorandum—Appendix.
[36] The New International, April, 1918.
[37] The number of votes was over 36,000,000.
[38] Vide Rakitnikov report.
[39] Twenty-three members of the Executive Committee were arrested and, without any trial, thrown into the Fortress of Peter and Paul.
[40] From a Declaration of Protest by the Executive Committee of the Third National Congress of Peasants' Delegates (anti-Bolshevist), sent to the Bolshevik Congress of Soviets of Workmen, Soldiers, and Peasants, but not permitted to be read to that assembly.
[41] L'Ouorier Russe, May, 1918.
[42] Idem.
[43] Izvestya, July 28, 1918.
[44] Pravda, October 8, 1918 (No. 216).