Having now attained political control the Russian proletariat can secure final victory over its class enemy if all the members of the party will be disciplined, organized, and coordinated in one compact whole.

And the world revolution, with the steel sword, will lead in the pages of history the glorious future of our party.

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APPEAL OF COMMUNIST PARTY ON SATURDAY WORK

[Izvestia of Petrograd Soviet, September 15, 1919]

The Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party has issued an appeal for the wider application of communist Saturday work. In the instructions issued the following phrases appear: "Members of the party are obliged to take part in 'Saturday work.' Those not taking part must be re-registered and membership dues are not accepted from them. A special bureau of the Central Committee is composed of three comrades appointed by the Moscow Committee."

In another part of the appeal it reads: "Comrades, go to work in a friendly spirit, for a great step forward has been made; the beginning is always hard but any beginning must be carried out to the end. We live in a time when our efforts must be directed in such a way as to liberate production from the grasping hands of capitalism and private property. We have liberated labor and now it is necessary to make labor 'the ruler of the world.' This is the fundamental task of the great movement of the working class and the actual freeing of labor; the complete transition from the kingdom of compulsion to the kingdom of freedom and liberty. Comrades, communistic Friday work days and Thursday work days will develop through the communistic Saturday work days. Thus we shall pass to complete universal communistic labor. Long live communism! Long live free communistic labor!"

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COLUMN "PARTY LIFE"

[Izvestia, November 15, 1919]

The following comrades, Communists, registered in the political section of the Revolutionary Soviet of the Republic must transfer all business in connection with posts occupied by

them and appear on November 17 before the Political Section of the Revolutionary Soviet of the Republic (address given), to Comrade Zahorab, the chief of the Instruction Department; (806) Baburin, Constantine Vas.; (807) Ben, Ilia Lavrent. (and so on through No. 861).

To attention of Comrade Communists:

The following comrades are called for November 17 to the Political Section of the Revolutionary Soviet of the Republic (Address), to Comrade Kameneva, for personal consultation (list of about 50).

The Committee of Russian Communist Party of the "city" ward publishes a list of the comrades who have been appointed to be sent to barracks in the third contingent. The mobilized comrades hold the following membership tickets:

(1) Golver, Marial Karlovich, membership ticket 3029 (list of names numbered up to 84).

"FROM THE COMMITTEE OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY"

[Izvestia, November 1, 1919]

The Committee of the Russian Communist Party of the Ward and the Staff of the Battalions for Special Service of this Ward proposes to all comrades whose names are given below to appear within two days of the publications of this list. Where persons for any reason are unable to appear, the factory or party groups should send notice within the term fixed, and are held responsible for the same. Against all comrades failing to appear within the term set the most severe measure will be taken, including exclusion from the party. (1) Antonov, N. S., membership ticket, 1949; (2) Artema, G. G., 1831. (List of 87 names.)

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"THE DUTY OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE PARTY," BY V. V. [Krasnaya Gazeta, September 27, 1919]

The new members of the party must not simply carry the party tickets in their pockets. They must set about immediately to fulfill their duties. But what can one demand of the workman, workwoman, or Red Army soldier who has just entered the party?

Of course, one can not make them immediately agitator-orators or organizers. But without any preparation they can fulfill the fundamental duties of party members.

One can agitate not only by making speeches, but by action, by one's personal example. The young party member, if he is a workman, must be a model in observing labor discipline; if he is a soldier, a model in observing the duty of a Red Army soldier. In his everyday work the workman must show the other less conscious workmen how one should fulfill the duties of an honest, toiling workman.

Example is the best method of agitation. Therefore, why should not the young party member show this example during the communist Saturdays, and why should he not be the first to appear for work, unloading wood for example. This does not require preparation; all that is needed is a little common sense; and this work is necessary to strengthen the revolution and bring about the complete triumph of the proletariat.

The figures on those taking part in the communist Saturdays show that approximately 7,000-8,000 Communists turn up for work, while in all Petrograd recently the number of members of the party was reckoned around 13,000-14,000; this means that some 6,000-7,000 do not turn up for Saturday work. And this last figure falls mainly on the young members. Party discipline still gives them an excuse.

But communistic consciousness should not allow them to take advantage of any excuses. Appealing to them we should say: "Young members of the party must first of all turn up for Saturday work."

A second duty is the following. The last city conference declared: every Communist must learn military science; must learn to handle a rifle, a machine gun, and a trench gun and drive an armored motor truck-in general, learn military science. The Central Committee of the party declared to create from all healthy Communists regiments for special service, with regular training in military matters, and to organize women Communists to study sanitation. At present these regiments are being organized in Petrograd.

The young Communist must give the most serious attention to his studies in these regiments. He must know that the calling of Communist imposes on him a special obligation to be ready at any moment, on the call of his party, to come to the defense

of the Soviet authority against the attacks of its enemies— whether it be an internal counter-revolutionary conspiracy or a danger on the external fronts. We must say then: "Young Communists, learn military science!"

The fulfilling of these two fundamental duties must be the first examination for young members of the party, in order to receive the honorable calling of Communists. There is no question that those workmen and peasants who have recently entered our ranks will pass this examination with honor, and will work together with the old Communists tempered in battle, here in the rear, with one hand carrying out their daily tasks, while holding a rifle in the other.

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FROM THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

[Petrograd Pravda, May 6, 1919]

For the purpose of carrying out more successfully the mobilization, and becoming acquainted with the party activity of provincial organizations, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party has ordered that responsible representatives be delegated for temporary work, as follows: To Viatka province, Steklov; to Vladimir province, Krylenko; to Voronezh, Ermeyev; to Gomel, Pravdin; to Ivano-Voznesensk, Ryazanov; to Kaluga, Yaroslavsky; to Kostroma, Lunacharsky; to Kursk, Bukharin; to Vitebsk, Dmitriev; to Saratov, Rykov; to Ryazan, Ovsyanikov; to Yaroslav, Lyubarsky and Dobrokhotov; to Smolensk and Minsk, Lander; to Moscow, Maksimovsky; to NizhnyNovgorod, Semashko; to Orel, Preobrazhensky; to Tambov, Podbelsky; to Tver, Sosnovsky; to Tula, Kanatshikov; and comrades from the Moscow organization: Kryukov, Merkulov, Emelyanov, Kolotev, Ilyushin, Osipov, Esikov, Butusov, Bodrov, Zdanevich, Babayev, Gorchatin, Gorpunov, Bochka, Korsinov, Ovsyanikov, and Piskarev.

Each of the above-enumerated comrades will be at the head of a group of comrades who have attended the Soviet lectures organized by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, or a proletarian university, and will lead this group as the responsible representative of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party.

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ORDER FROM TROTSKY

[Petrograd Pravda, November 4, 1919]

The offensive temporarily stopped is commencing again. We have concentrated great masses of artillery and technical equipment. The number of our soldiers considerably exceeds that of the enemy. We have all means for a complete defeat of the bands of Yudenich.

It is necessary that the whole apparatus of the Seventh Army function correctly.

I. The commanders of military supplies of the army must take good care of the soldiers, and see that they are well dressed, shod, fed, and supplied with raw materials. No interruption in feeding and supplying with ammunition is permitted. It is only necessary to supply and distribute. The commanders of the departments of supply are responsible for the punctual carrying out of these instructions.

2. The commanders and commissars must lead their regiments decisively. Fighting orders must be fulfilled accurately. No changes or explanations will be permitted. Commanders and commissars are responsible for their regiments before the Soviet Republic.

3. The infantry must strictly remember that the artillery and armored trains do not replace infantry but only help it.

4. The Communists must be at the most dangerous posts, giving an example of bravery and indefatigability. Communists who will be found guilty of saving themselves will be punished doubly.

5. Severe punishments for cowards and egoists. Those retreating in disorder are to be executed on the spot. Tribunals must so function that executions take place immediately after the passing of sentence.

6. Commanders, Commissars, Communists! Honest soldiers are ordered to see that traitors should not corrupt our ranks; provocatory agents and those bringing about panic must be annihilated on the spot. Everybody at his post must work according to his conscience, must act to the maximum of his