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.
From The Council Of People's Commissars To The Revolutionary Military Committee "All public organisations must be drawn into the fight against the food plunderers."
Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee "Peace cannot be concluded only from above. Peace must be won from below. We put no trust in the German generals, but we have faith in the German people."
Wireless Message "Soldiers, the cause of peace is in your hands! Do not allow the counter-revolutionary generals to frustrate the great cause of peace, place them under guard in order to avert acts of summary justice unworthy of a revolutionary army"
Foreword to: How the Socialist Revolutionaries Cheated The People and What the New Bolshevik Government Has Given the People "Not all peasants have as yet realised that their Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies are the true, authentic, supreme state power, but they soon will." Foreword to the Pamphlet, How the Socialist RevolutionariesCheated The People, and What the New Bolshevik Government Has Given the People.