Из «разжалованной столицы…» (по материалам оппозиционной прессы 1918 г.)
«From the demoted capital....» (from oppositional periodicals in 1918).

Summary/Abstract: The 90th anniversary of transfer of Soviet government from St. Petersburg to Moscow and «temporary» transfer of the capital was celebrated in March 2008. The Extraordinary Fourth All-Russia Congress of the Soviets (March 16th, 1918) adopted this historical decision by the simple majority of votes. Since that time the problem of the two capitals brings the researchers back to the origins of this event. During the first months after the October Revolution, dozens of periodicals of the Mensheviks, Anarchists and Socialist-Revolutionaries had been published. The most acting newspapers were «Znamya Truda» («Labours Banner»), «Petrogradskoye Echo» («Petrograd Echo»), «Novaya Petrogradskaya Gazeta» («New Petrograd Newspaper»), «Vlast Naroda» («Peoples Power»). The mouthpiece of the anti-Bolshevik independent workers movement became «Novaya Zhizn» («New Life») newspaper, founded and edited by Maxim Gorky. In the press polyphony of that time, different opinions and explanations of the reasons why the government moved to Moscow were voiced on the pages of the opposition newspapers. The consequences of that decision were predicted. The variety of the opinions on the transfer of the capital and other concurrent events formed the basis of the article «From the demoted capital...»

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