ABSTRACT
The Manifesto of the 14th of March to the Peoples of the World made an enormous impression all over Russia. It was felt that a new epoch had begun; that the beginnings of freedom and justice, sanctified by the Russian Revolution, were permeating foreign policy as well. In its Manifesto the Democracy announced that it would "use all means to oppose the annexationist policy of its ruling classes". The Soviet, therefore, proceeded to demand that the Provisional Government should publicly announce their repudiation of annexations. On the very day when the Provisional Government decided to make its concession to the Democracy, the party of the Cadets held its first Congress since the Revolution. The Executive Committee of the Soviet has entered into relations with the Provisional Government, pointing out the immediate necessity for free Russia to renounce all the aims of conquest of Tsarism.
