There is a full-fledged economic crisis in the country. The daily bread ration in Petrograd has been axed to just 150 grams!

Until recently Russia was the number one world grain exporter…

Many people believe that in these deplorable economic conditions any measures to end the war are good

The Bolsheviks exploit these sentiments to the full. Trotsky as the new foreign minister issues an appeal to all belligerent powers

He urges them to start peace talks immediately

Aware of the Entente’s desire to defeat Germany and Austria-Hungary, Trotsky invites Berlin to negotiate a separate peace deal

The Bolsheviks order Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Dukhonin to start peace talks with the Central Powers’ army commanders

Dukhonin declines to do it, insisting that such talks are a prerogative of the Petrograd authorities

Lenin dismisses Dukhonin. The general is replaced by the sub-officer Nikolai Krylenko, a close associate of the Soviet leader

The Bolsheviks have issued a new decree. This time it is about social estates and civil ranks. They have abolished all of them

There are no noblemen, no commoners and of course no princes or counts anymore in Russia. From now on there are only Russian citizens…

News just in that the Allies have responded to Trotsky’s offer of universal peace without annexations and indemnities

They condemned it as an attempt to start separate peace talks with Berlin

Trotsky underlined that he meant a universal peace deal

He also remarked, however, that it would be foolish of the Allies to push Russia into signing a peace accord only with Germany

The Bolsheviks have kept their promise. The elections to the Constituent Assembly have started

There had been so much discussion about this “Master of the Russian Land” under different Provisional Governments

However, it is only Lenin, we have to give it to him, who is holding elections

The Extraordinary Congress of Peasant Soviets has held its first session in Petrograd

The majority of deputies are either Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, whose leaders are about to join the Bolshevik government, or Bolsheviks. After the Bolsheviks’ Decree on Land that granted all the land to the peasants, the latter are ardent supporters of the radicals #1917LIVE