legates adopted a series of resolutions in which there was a
distinct menace to the Provisional Government. An earlier proclamation by
the Petrograd Soviet had taken the form of a letter addressed to
"Proletarians and Working-people of all Countries," but being in fact an
appeal to the German working class to rise and refuse to fight against
democratic and free Russia.[6] It declared that the peoples must take the
matter of deciding questions of war and peace into their own hands. The new
declaration was addressed to the Russian people:

_First_.--The Provisional Government, which constituted itself
during the Revolution, in agreement with the Council of Workmen's
and Soldiers' Delegates of Petrograd, published a proclamation
announcing its program. This Congress records that this program
contains in principle political demands for Russian democracy, and
_recognizes that so far the Provisional Government has faithfully
carried out its promises_.

_Second_.--This Congress appeals to the whole revolutionary
democracy of Russia to rally to the support of the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, which is the center of the
organized democratic forces that are capable, in unison with
other progressive forces, of counteracting any counter
revolutionary attempt and of consolidating the conquests of the
revolution.

_Third_.--The Congress recognizes the necessity of permanent
political control, the necessity of exercising an influence over
the Provisional Government which will keep it up to a more
energetic struggle against anti-revolutionary forces, and the
necessity of exercising an influence which will insure its
democratizing the whole Russian life and paving the way for a
common _peace without annexations or contributions_, but on a
basis of free national development of all peoples.

_Fourth_.--The Congress appeals to the democracy, while declining
responsibility for any of its acts, to support the Provisional
Government as long as it continues to consolidate and develop the
conquest of the Revolution, _and as long as the basis of its
foreign policy does not rest upon aspirations for territorial
expansion_.

_Fifth_.--The Congress calls upon the revolutionary democracy of
Russia, rallying around the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers'
Delegates, to be ready to _vigorously suppress any att