Committee for the Salvation of the Fatherland and the Revolution

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COMMITTEE FOR THE SALVATION OF THE FATHERLAND AND THE REVOLUTION, An anti-Bolshevik organisation, established on the night of 26 October (old style: 8 November) 1917. The committee was comprised of representatives of the City Duma, Pre-Parliament, the first-ever Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, the Executive Committee of All-Russian Soviet of Peasants' Deputies, Central Fleet, Central Committee of Mensheviks' Party, Socialist Revolutionaries, People's Socialists, postal telegraph and railway Soviets, factions of Mensheviks and Socialists-Revolutionaries, who left the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets etc. Chairman - A.R. Goz (Socialist-Revolutionary). The committee quartered in the building of the City Duma and declared itself the All-Russia Governing Body, functioning as the Government until the legitimate power of the Provisional Government would be restored. The committee appointed its commissars in various governmental offices; tried to spread this activity throughout the country; issued decrees and anti-Bolshevist proclamations, appeals to renounce the Soviet authorities and not to comply with its orders; contacted the embassies of Great Britain and the USA; tried to co-ordinate its activities with A.F. Kerensky, who headed the campaign of General P.N. Krasnov's Cossacks against Petrograd. The Military Commission of the Committee (Goz, N.D. Avksentyev, A.A. Bruderer, et al.) organised the insurrection of military cadets in Petrograd on 29 October (old style: 11 November) (crushed on the same day). On 9 (old style: 22) October 1917 the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee decided to dissolve the committee and arrest its members. They failed to implement this decision: although the committee actually stopped functioning, some its members joined the Union for the Protection of the Constituent Assembly.

Reference: Фрайман А. Л. Форпост социалистической революции: Петроград в первые месяцы Сов. власти. Л., 1969.

A. M. Kulegin. Avksentyev Nikolay Dmitrievich
Bruderer Alexander A.
Goz Abram Rafailovich
Kerensky Alexander Fedorovich
Krasnov Peter Nikolaevich
Фрайман А. Л. Форпост социалистической революции: Петроград в первые месяцы Сов. власти. Л., 1969 City Duma
Provisional Government of 1917
Union for Constituent Assembly Protection