The Saint Petersburg Soviet

On october seventeenth, there were 562 in all, elected a 50 person executive committee to manage their affairs. The saint petersburg soviet then took on a number of tasks, pressuring factories still trying to stay open to close and imploring workers off the job to stay off the job. But they also took on other tasks that drifted them into the waters of self government. For example, taking responsibility for insuring a fair and equitable distribution of food,. They allowed grocery stores to stay open and deliveries to continue under their watchful eye. To promote their authority and spread their message, they started printing a newspaper called tidings which became a critical conduit for spreading news, information