Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-09
MAX||MAL|STSS SEIZE
PETR0GRAD, DISSOLVE
RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT.
Petrograd Garrison Aids Coup
d'Etat and CosSacks Refuse
to Oppose Revolt Against
Provisional Government

have obtained control of Petrograd and
issued proclamation saying the new
government will propose immediate
peeac the semi-official Russian news
agency announces.
Premier Kerensky has been deposed
The Maximalists were assisted by the
Petrograd garrison. which made posi-
Bile a coup d'etat without pIoodshed.
Leon Trotzky, president of the cen.
trail executive committee of the Petro.
grad council of soldiers and workmen's
delegates, issued a declaration to the
effect that the provisional government
was no longer in existence and that some
of its members had been arrested. The
preliminary parliament has been dis
solved
A wireless dispatch from Petrograd
says that the council of soldiers and
workmen's delegates has announced that
the split in the council has been healed
and that a call has been sent out for a
delegate from each $4,000 of the popula-
ton to express the will of the Russian
army.
The Russian news agency which, as
reported last night, was seized by the
maximalists. sends the following dis
patch from Petrograd, dated $3.50 O'CLOCK
last evening:
The day brought certain changes
in the general situation in the cap
ital The maXimalist movement
made fresh and fairly apprecia-
BILE progress, but no disorders
have taken place.
Toward ) o'clock in the afternoon
the military committee of the SOL
diers and workmen's delegates is
sued a proclamation stating that
Petrograd was in its hands, thanks
to the assistance of the garrison
which enabled the coup d'etaI TO be
brought about without bloodshed.
The proclamation declares that
the new government will propose
an immediate and Just peace, will
hand the land to the peasants and
will summon the constituent assem-
bly,. ts,a.
Delegates from the. Cossack regi-
ments quartered here declared they
would not obey the provisional gov
ernment and would not march
against the soldiers and workmen's
delegates, but that they were pre-
pared to maintain public order
The Petrograd council of SOL
diers and workmen's delegates held
a meeting this afternoon, at which
NJ. Trotzky made his declaration
that the government no longer ex-
listed; that some of the ministers
had been arrested and that the pre-
liminary parliament had been dis
solved
Nikolai Lenine, who received pro-
longed cheers, outlined three prob
lens now before the Russian de-
mocracy-first, immediate concIu-
sion of the war. for which purpose
the new government must propose
an armistice to the helligerents;
second, the handing over of the
land to the peasants; third. settle
ment of the economic crisis.
At the close of the sitting a dec
laration was read from the repre-
sentatives of the Democratic Mini
malist party of the soldiers and
workmen's delegates. stating that the
party disapproved of the coup d'etat
and withdrew from the council of
q soldiers and workmen's delegates.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Petrograd says a strong detachment OF
troops of the soldiers and workmen's
delegates occupied the Baltic railway
station and that the government COM
all motor cars, combining the
troops to the barracks.
A proclamation sent out through the
wireless stations of the Russian gov
lOudy anu plChcu up Hci G
states that the garrison and proletariat
of Petrograd have deposed the Kerens-
ky government.
1t has been indicated for some time
that an attempt was to be made by
the Maximai1sts in Petrograd to seize
control of the capital November
was the date originally set, for an ex-
tremist demonstration which was ex-
pected by its promoters to result in the
taking over of power by this element.
.. postponement to an unannounced date
was afterward decided upon, however.
The Maximalist, or Bolsheviki ele-
ment, comprises the most extreme class
of the Russian revolutionary Socialists.
1t first sprang into prominence In the
early days of the revolution under the
leadership of Nikolai Lenine, the Rad
ical agitator, who later was put under
the han of the provisional government
because of his ultra-radical preach
ments and his suspected pro-German
leanings.
He IS known to have been in Petro-
grad for some time past, however put
. government order for his arrest failed
to result in his apprehension. Mean
while the Maximalists were under the
leadership of his chief lieutenant, Leon
TrOtZky, whose nome was III INC ChAI0N
States when the revolution broke OUT
but who sailed for Russia shortly AFTER
ward. He was one of the leaders in the
1an5 revolution.
= The strength for the Maximalists has
lain in the support which they obtained
from the military. chiefly in the Petro~
grad garrison, among which they have
been able to work with little interfe--
ence from their government. They hao
failed, however, to impress their poll
cies upon Russia as a whole, as has
been shown by the manner in which
they were oHtvoted in the all-Russian
congress and the minority par they
played in the organization of the pre-
liminary parliament, in which they :e-
fused to participate after they were
shown to be outnumbered. Neverthe-
less, their influence upon Russia's poll
cy has been marked because of their
predominance in Petrograd. 1T was
this sinister influence that in part
prompted the recent proposal by the
Kerensky government to remove the
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