Abstract
lives in the House of Trade Unions on June 8, 1922, were veteran revolutionaries who had served long prison terms under Tsar Nicholas II. Abraham Gotz, the leading figure, had been condemned to death in 1907 by an Imperial court and was serving a term at hard labor in Siberia when released in 1917 by the March Revolution. He was vice-president of the All-Russian Soviet until November 1917. Helena Ivanova had been sentenced to a life term at hard labor in 1908, was freed in 1917, and went back to prison soon after the Bolshevik seizure of power. Eugenia Ratner had been arrested eight times by the Tsarist police and had spent six years in prison. Eugene Timofeev had served twelve years at hard labor in Siberia, and Sergei Morozov seven years. All the defendants had a lifelong record of bitter struggle against the Tsarist regime. Now they faced execution by a revolutionary tribunal. What was their crime? In November 1917, shortly after the Bolshevik seizure of power, the Socialist Revolutionary Party won a clear majority in the All-Russian Constituent Assembly elected by secret ballot on the basis of universal suffrage. When the Constituent Assembly met on January 18, 1918, it refused to surrender its authority to the Soviet regime. On the following day Bolshevik rifles dispersed it.
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