Direct-Line Conversation With Helsingfors "I want to say I am sure the Republic and all the destroyers we send will do their duty in defending the revolution."
Conference of Regimental Delegates of the Petrograd Garrison "The soldiers will teach the workers how to handle arms. The wholesale arming of the people and the abolition of the regular army is a task which we must not lose sight of for a single minute"
Draft Regulations On Workers’ Control Written on 26 or 27 of October 1917, stating the eight key regulations on workers control following the October Revolution.
Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies "Our idea of strength is different. Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything and do everything consciously."
Meeting Of The Petrograd Soviet Of Workers' And Soldiers' Deputies "We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia. Long live the world socialist revolution!"
Letter To Central Committee Members "The government is tottering. It must be given the death blow at all costs. To delay action is fatal."
To All Party Members And To All The Working Classes Of Russia "Our Party stands solidly and firmly, as one man, in defence of Soviet power, in defence of the interests of all the working people, and first and foremost of the workers and poor peasants." From the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
From The Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) An ultimatum from the Central Committee to Kamenev, Zinoviev, Ryazanov and Larin; written on 5 or 6 Novermber, 1917.
Reply To Questions From Peasants "The Council of People’s Commissars calls upon the peasants to take all power into their own hands in their respective localities"
Letter to Comrades "To doubt now that the majority of the people are following and will follow the Bolsheviks is shameful vacillation and in practice is the abandoning of all the principles of proletarian revolutionism, the complete renunciation of Bolshevism."
Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) October 29 (16), 1917 "The position was clear—either Kornilov's dictatorship or the dictatorship of the proletariat and the poorer strata of the peasantry."
Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) October 23 (10), 1917 "We now have the majority behind us. Politically, the situation is fully ripe for taking power."
Advice of an Onlooker "The success of both the Russian and the world revolution depends on two or three days' fighting."
