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."
To Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers!
"Neither the workers in the cities nor the soldiers at the front can tolerate this military suppression of the just struggle of the peasants for the land."
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."