3 + 

Moderate Socialist Press on the Bolsheviki + 

Dielo Naroda, October 28 (Socialist Revolutionary). “The most frightful crime of the Bolsheviki against the Revolution is that they impute exclusively to the bad intentions of the revolutionary Government all the calamities which the masses are so cruelly suffering; when as a matter of fact these calamities spring from objective causes. + 

“They make golden promises to the masses, knowing in advance that they can fulfil none of them; they lead the masses on a false trail, deceiving them as to the source of all their troubles.⁠ ⁠… + 

“The Bolsheviki are the most dangerous enemies of the Revolution.⁠ ⁠…” + 

Dien, October 30 (Menshevik). “Is this really ‘the freedom of the press’? Every day Novaya Rus and Robotchi Put openly incite to insurrection. Every day these two papers commit in their columns actual crimes. Every day they urge pogroms.⁠ ⁠… Is that ‘the freedom of the press’?⁠ ⁠… + 

“The Government ought to defend itself and defend us. We have the right to insist that the Government machinery does not remain passive while the threat of bloody riots endangers the lives of its citizens.⁠ ⁠…” + 