Sovnarkom
Decree on Dismissal of the Electoral Commission


Written: November 29/December 12, 1917
First Published: Sobranie Uzakonenii i Rasporiazhenii Rabochego i Krestianskogo Pravitelstva, 1917, No. 5, p. 67.
Source: James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, The Bolshevik revolution, 1917-1918: Documents and materials, Stanford University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934, pp. 349-350.
Translated: Emanuel Aronsberg
Transcription/Markup: Zdravko Saveski
Online Version: marxists.org 2017


Because they refuse to work with the commissar appointed by the Soviet of People's Commissars, the chairman .... and the members of the All-Russian Commission on Elections to the Constituent Assembly . . . . are dismissed. . . . .

Until the appointment of new members all matters relating to the All-Russian Commission on Elections to the Constituent Assembly will be handled by M. Uritsky.

V. ULIANOV (LENIN), President of the Sovnarkom

I. STALIN, I. STUCHKA, People's Commissars