V. I. Lenin

Decree On The Arrest Of The Leaders
Of The Civil War Against
The Revolution

Members of leading bodies of the Cadet Party, as a party of
enemies of the people, are liable to arrest and trial by
revolutionary tribunal.

Local Soviets are ordered to exercise special surveillance over the Cadet Party in view of
its connection with the Kornilov-Kaledin civil war against the
revolution.

This decree enters into effect from the time of signing.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin),
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissar

Petrograd, November 28, 1917, 10.30 p.m.