The Requisition of Articles of Warm Clothing for the Soldiers at the Front "Two rich families having two rich fiats are obliged to move into one of their fiats during the winter, giving the other up to the use of the poor population in view of the extreme need created by the war."
Theses for a Law on the Confiscation of Apartment and Tenement Houses Written: December 3 (November 20), 1917.
Draft Decree On The Right Of Recall "It would be betraying democracy and abdicating the basic principles and tasks of the socialist revolution, which has begun in Russia, to refuse, on that ground, to practise the right of recall, or to hamper or restrict its exercise in any way."
Alliance Between the Workers and Exploited Peasants "The alliance between the workers and the working and exploited peasants would make it obligatory for the party of the proletariat to vote for the peasants and against the bourgeoisie"
To The Population "Comrades, working people! Remember that now you yourselves are at the helm of state. No one will help you if you yourselves do not unite and take into your hands all affairs of the state."
Speech at a Joint Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies and Delegates From the Fronts "If the war is to be brought to an end, the power of capital must be destroyed."
Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee "Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity."
Draft Resolution On Freedom Of The Press "For the workers’ and peasants’ government, freedom of the press means liberation of the press from capitalist oppression, and public ownership of paper mills and printing presses"
Ultimatum from the C.C. Majority "It stands to reason, a split would be highly deplorable. But an honest and open split would now be incomparably better than internal sabotage, the thwarting of our own decisions, disorganisation and prostration."
The Tasks Of The Public Library In Petrograd Written by Lenin in November, 1917, on the need to improve public education in Petrograd.
Resolution of C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) on the Opposition within the C.C. "The Central Committee affirms, finally, that despite all difficulties, the victory of socialism both in Russia and in Europe can only be ensured by the unswerving continuation of the present government's policy."
Speeches at a Meeting of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) November 14 (1), 1917 "There must be no vacillation. We are backed by the majority of the workers and peasants and of the army."
Wireless Message Of The Council Of People’s Commissars "The Soviet Government is making every effort to avert bloodshed..." Wired on 30 October, 1917.
