lages,
across the destroyed gifts of civilization, we summon you to the work of
renewing and solidifying international unity. In that lies the guaranty of
our future triumph and of the complete liberation of humanity.

Working-men of all countries, unite!

TCHCHEIDZE, _the President_.
PETROGRAD, _April, 1917_.

APPENDIX II

HOW THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS FOUGHT FOR A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY[91]

A report to the International Socialist Bureau by Inna Rakitnikov,
Vice-President of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Delegates,
placing themselves upon the grounds of the defense of the Constituent
Assembly.

With a letter-preface by the citizen, E. Roubanovitch, member of the
International Socialist Bureau.

_To the Executive Committee of the International Socialist
Bureau_:

DEAR COMRADES,--The citizen Inna Rakitnikov has lately
come from Petrograd to Paris for personal reasons that are
peculiarly tragic. At the time of her departure the Executive
Committee of the Second Soviet of Peasant Delegates of All-Russia,
of which she is one of the vice-presidents, requested her to make
to the International Socialist Bureau a detailed report of the
fights that this organization had to make against the Bolsheviki
in order to realize the convocation of the Constituent Assembly.

This is the report under the title of a document that I present
here, without commentary, asking you to communicate it without
delay to all the sections of the International. Two words of
explanation, only: First, I wish to draw your attention to the
fact that this is the second time that the Executive Committee of
the Soviet of the Peasants of All-Russia addresses itself publicly
to the International.

At the time of my journey to Stockholm in the month of September,
1917, I made, at a session of the Holland, Scandinavian committee,
presided over by Branting, a communication in the name of the
Executive Committee of the Soviet of Peasants. I handed over on
this occasion to our secretary, Camille Huysmans, an appeal to the
democrats of the entire world, in which the Executive Committee
indicated clearly its position in the questions of the world war
and of agrarian reform, and vindicated its place in the Workers'
and Socialist International family.

I must also present to you the author of this report. The citizen
Rakitni