# Revolutionary Financial Measure explained — Ten Days That Shook the World

> Chapter companion for Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

## What happens

The Military Revolutionary Committee in Moscow issues a decree regulating bank operations, limiting withdrawals to 150 rubles per depositor for the first week, with exceptions for military needs and worker salaries. Non-compliant employees face revolutionary tribunals.

## Themes in this chapter

### Workers' Control and Economic Transformation

The decree places banking operations under revolutionary oversight, prioritizing worker salaries and military needs.

## Character check-ins

### Yakov Sverdlov

Not directly mentioned but associated with the Military Revolutionary Committee's financial decrees.

## Key lines

> All banks with branches, the Central State Savings Bank with branches, and the savings banks at the Post and Telegraph offices are to be opened beginning November 22nd, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. until further order.

All banks and savings institutions must reopen on November 22nd for limited hours.

_The decree mandates the reopening of financial institutions under new regulations._

> All employees and managers of credit institutions of all kinds who refuse to comply with this decree shall be responsible as enemies of the Revolution and of the mass of the population, before the Revolutionary Tribunals.

Bank staff who disobey the order will be tried as enemies of the revolution.

_Threat of revolutionary justice to enforce compliance._

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