1917: Poster of the Social Revolutionaries

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Note translated by Reddit user neopoznanoye_telo

Text reads 

[Banner]  "In the struggle you will gain your right!"

  Long live the revolutionary people!
What will we produce during the constituent assembly?

  1.     A speedy and lasting peace.
  2.     All power to the people.
  3.     All land without redemption - to the working people - Land only to those who work on it. No purchase or sale of land.
  4.     Shifting taxes from the poor to the rich.
  5.     The destruction of the standing army and its replacement by the people's militia.
  6.     The struggle for socialism, i.e., the transfer of factories into the hands of the working people    Peasants and workers - who were nothing - will become everything!

Comments; 

I'm assuming this was produced in 1917 between the February and October revolutions since it opposes the ongoing participation in the First World War and calls for extending the socialist policies demanded by the councils. 

This may also be before the split within the Social Revolutionary Party* (SRP) along Left and Right lines with several minorities in-between the two polls. I would assume based on the 6 points that the authors were more sympathetic to the Left faction of the party.

 

*Also translated as Socialist Revolutionary Party 

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