Izvestya_, one of the Bolshevist
official organs:

KAZAN, _July 26th. As the important offices in the Soviet
were occupied by Socialist-Revolutionists of the Left, the
Extraordinary Commission has dissolved the Provisional Soviet. The
governmental power is now represented by a Revolutionary
Committee. (Izvestya, July 28, 1918.)_

KAZAN, _August 1_. The state of mind of the workmen is
revolutionary. _If the Mensheviki dare to carry on their
propaganda, death menaces them. (Idem, August 3.)_

And here is confirmation from another official organ of the Bolsheviki,
_Pravda_:

KAZAN, _August 4th_. The Provisional Congress of the
Soviets of the Peasants has been dissolved because of the absence
from it of poor peasants and _because its state of mind is
obviously counter-revolutionary. (Pravda, August 6, 1918.)_

As early as April, 1918, the Soviet at Jaroslav was dissolved by the
Bolshevik authorities and new elections ordered.[41] In these elections
the Mensheviki and the Socialist-Revolutionists everywhere gained an
absolute majority.[42] The population here wanted the Constituent Assembly
and they wanted Russia to fight on with the Allies. Attempts to suppress
this majority led to insurrection, which the Bolsheviki crushed in the most
brutal manner, and when the people, overpowered and helpless, sought to
make peace, the Bolsheviki only _increased the artillery fire_! Here is an
"Official Bulletin," published in _Izvestya_, July 21, 1918:

At Jaroslav the adversary, gripped in the iron ring of our troops,
has tried to enter into negotiations. _The reply has been given
under the form of redoubled artillery fire._

_Izvestya_ published, on July 25th, a Bolshevist military proclamation
addressed to the inhabitants of Jaroslav concerning the insurrection which
originally arose from the suppression of the Soviet and other popular
assemblages:

The General Staff notifies to the population of Jaroslav that all
those who desire to live are invited to abandon the town in the
course of twenty-four hours and to meet near the America Bridge.
Those who remain will be treated as insurgents, _and no quarter
will be given to any one_. Heavy artillery fire and gas-bombs will
be used against them. _All those who remain will perish In the
ruins of the town with the insurrectionists, the traitors, and the
enemies of the Workers' and Peasants'