The new Cabinet will base its policy upon the following principles: First.—An immediate and general amnesty for all political and religious offenses, including terrorist acts and military and agrarian offenses.
Second.—Liberty of speech and of the press; freedom for alliances, unions, and strikes, with the extension of these liberties to military officials, within the limits admitted by military requirements.
Third.—Abolition of all social, religious, and national restrictions.
Fourth.—To proceed forthwith to the preparation and convocation of a Constituent Assembly, based on universal suffrage. This Assembly will establish a stable universal régime.
Fifth.—The substitution of the police by a national militia, with chiefs to be elected and responsible to the municipalities.
Sixth.—Communal elections to be based on universal, direct, equal, and secret suffrage.
Seventh.—The troops which participated in the revolutionary movement will not be disarmed, but will remain in Petrograd.
Eighth.—While maintaining strict military discipline for troops in active service, it is desirable to abrogate for soldiers all restrictions in the enjoyment of civil rights accorded other citizens.
The Provisional Government desires to add that it has no intention of taking advantage of war conditions to delay the realization of the measures of reform above mentioned.