Despite his assurances of loyalty to Soviet power, M. A. Muravyov attempted to incite a rebellion on the Eastern Front and move troops toward Moscow. However, the reckless adventure he initiated ended in complete failure.

DRAFT OF POINT 20 IN THE SECOND SECTION  
OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE RSFSR  
[1918, July, before the 10th]  
The RSFSR recognizes full civil and political equality for foreign workers engaged in productive labor on the territory of the Republic, equal to the rights of Russian citizens.

The Constitution of the RSFSR was adopted on July 10, 1918, by the Fifth All-Russian Congress of Soviets.

TWO NOTES TO N. I. PODVOISKY  
[July 16, 1918]  
To Podvoisky  
Why  
Have you not dispatched from Kursk 4 regiments + Asarkha’s (?) regiment + Sluvis’ division?  
The delay is ruining us on the Czechoslovak front, and you have delayed!  

[July 19, 1918]  
To Podvoisky  
I did not respond to the second telegram because such an appointment does not depend on me and is generally hardly possible, as it violates the entire established order.  
The Czechoslovak (and kulak) danger is so serious that, in my opinion, you should take it upon yourself (and Trotsky will likely agree) to tour the Western and Southern (German) fronts, etc., to expedite the transfer of troops from there to the Czechoslovak front?  

1) In response to this note from V. I. Lenin, N. I. Podvoisky, a member of the Supreme Military Council, wrote that the units intended for dispatch from Kursk to the Eastern Front were still being formed. A brigade of three regiments with three batteries will be loaded on July 23.  
2) This refers to N. I. Podvoisky’s proposal to assume leadership in suppressing the Czechoslovak revolt and counterrevolutionary uprisings in the Volga region and the Urals.

OUTLINE OF A SPEECH AT THE JOINT MEETING OF THE VTsIK, MOSCOW SOVIET, FACTORY COMMITTEES, AND TRADE UNIONS OF MOSCOW  
[1918, July, no later than the 29th]  
I.  
Before the new harvest—the critical period of the revolution.  
The peak of the crisis.  

II. The "state of war" has been determined:  
Czechoslovaks (15 million) + White Guards, landowners, capitalists  
Murmansk  
Alekseev | at Tikhoretskaya |  
Baku (Dashnaks + British)  
Turkestan (British).  

III. The "encirclement" by Anglo-French imperialists. The "ring." Bribed and bought off the bourgeoisie, allied with them.  

IV. Food supplies. Cut off from bread.  

V. "Kulak uprisings"  
The class character is clearer than clear:  
proletariat + rural poor versus kulaks and bourgeoisie  
wavering of the Left SRs.  

VI. War fatigue (Simbirsk: a peasant province) + betrayals by commanders (as happened in the Great French Revolution).  

VII. Yet the military situation decides everything, the war (civil war) decides everything.  
All forces to the war!  
All forces against the Czechoslovaks.  
The betrayal and treachery of the Left SRs.  

VIII. What is the struggle about? What is at stake?  
a) The restoration of the power of landowners and capitalists  
b) The restoration of the front, dragging into the imperialist war.  

The Czechoslovak front (15 million rubles)  
Murmansk.  
Alekseev  
Baku  
Turkestan.  

Class situation:  
kulak uprisings; decisive battle with the bourgeoisie. The poor and working people versus the bourgeoisie.  

The proletariat and the poor: who will win over whom.  

... Food supplies ...  

War fatigue: betrayals by commanders; the surrender of Simbirsk (examples like this occurred in the Great French Revolution—no cause for despair).  

The military situation: the outcome depends on military success.  

Restoring the front:  
submission of the entire country to the imperialists.  

a) The power of landowners and capitalists  
b) Dragging forces into the imperialist war and imperialist enslavement.  

1) V. I. Lenin delivered this speech on July 29, 1918 (see Works, 4th ed., vol. 28, pp. 1–17).