"M. Kerensky has taken flight, and all military
bodies have been empowered to take all possible measures to arrest
Kerensky and bring him back to Petrograd. All complicity with Kerensky
will be dealt with as high treason."

A Bolsheviki Cabinet was named. The Premier was Nicholas Lenine; the
Foreign Minister, Leon Trotzky. The other Cabinet members were all
Bolsheviki, including Bibenko, a Kronstadt sailor, of the Committee on
War and Marine, and Shliapnikov, a laborer, who was Minister of Labor.
Lenine's personality has already been described. Trotzky, the chief aid
of Lenine's rebellion, had been living in New York City three months
before the Czar was overthrown, but he had previously been expelled from
Germany, France, Switzerland and Spain. His real name was Leber
Braunstein, and he was born in the Russian Government of Kherson, near
the Black Sea.

When the insurrection occurred, Kerensky succeeded in escaping from
Petrograd, and persuaded about two thousand Cossacks, several hundred
Military Cadets, and a contingent of Artillery, to fight under his
banner. He advanced toward Petrograd, but his forces were greatly
outnumbered by the Bolsheviki. At Tsarskoe-Selo a battle took place, the
Kerensky troops met defeat, and its leader saved himself by flight.

At Moscow the entire city passed into the control of the Bolsheviki but
not without severe fighting in which more than three thousand people
were slain. On the collapse of the Kerensky government conditions
throughout Russia became chaotic. Ukraine declared its independence, and
Finland also severed its connection with Russia. General Kaledines
declared against the Bolsheviki, and organized an army to save the
country. Siberia, Bessarabia, Lithuania, the Caucasus and other
districts declared their complete independence of the Central
Government.

The Bolsheviki, in control at Petrograd, opened negotiations with the
Central Powers for an armistice along the entire front from the Baltic
to Asia Minor, and on December 17th, such an armistice went into effect.
Meanwhile they began negotiations for a treaty of peace. General
Dukholin, the Commander-in-Chief, on November 20th, was ordered by
Lenine to propose the armistice. To this request he made no reply, and
on November 21st, he was deposed and Ensign Krylenko was appointed the
new Commander-in-Chief. General Dukholin was subsequently murdered, by
being thrown from a train after the Bolsheviki seized the general