nakaz

Then Skobeliev, looking like a matinée idol with his soft blond beard and wavy yellow hair, rather apologetically defending the Soviet nakaz.

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All which is contained in this nakaz, being the expression of the indisputable will of the great majority of conscious peasants of Russia, is declared to be a temporary law, and until the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, becomes effective immediately so far as is possible, and in some parts of it gradually, as will be determined by the District Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies.

Appendix to Chapter V 1922

The Soviets chose Skobeliev to speak for them and drew up a manifesto, the famous nakaz— (See App. II, Sect. 5) instructions.

Chapter 2. The Coming Storm 1922

In the name of the Tsay-ee-kah, Skobeliev insisted that the nakaz be presented at the Allied Conference, and formally protested against the sending of Terestchenko to Paris.

Chapter 3. On the Eve 1922

For guidance during the realisation of the great land reforms until their final resolution by the Constituent Assembly, shall serve the following peasant nakaz (See App. V, Sect. 3) (instructions), drawn up on the basis of 242 local peasant nakazi by the editorial board of the “Izviestia of the All-Russian Soviet of Peasants’ Deputies, ” and published in No. 88 of said “Izviestia” (Petrograd, No. 88, August 19th, 1917).

Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead 1922

The Provisional Government objected to Skobeliev and his nakaz; the Allied ambassadors protested and finally Bonar Law in the British House of Commons, in answer to a question, responded coldly, “As far as I know the Paris Conference will not discuss the aims of the war at all, but only the methods of conducting it….

Chapter 2. The Coming Storm 1922

Only the same platitudes about crushing German militarism with the help of the Allies—about the “state interests” of Russia, about the “embarrassment” caused by Skobeliev’s nakaz.

Chapter 2. The Coming Storm 1922

The nakaz to Skobeliev is bad; the Allies don’t like it and the Russian diplomats don’t like it.

Chapter 2. The Coming Storm 1922

(See App. II, Sect. 12) in the Council of the Republic, branding the Skobeliev nakaz as pro-German, declaring that the “revolutionary democracy” was destroying Russia, sneering at Terestchenko, and openly declaring that he preferred German diplomacy to Russian….

Chapter 2. The Coming Storm 1922

Now arose a soldier, gaunt, ragged and eloquent, to protest against the clause of the nakaz tending to deprive military deserters from a share in village land allotments.

Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead 1922