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."
Letter To I. T. Smilga "The Petrograd Soviet and the Bolsheviks have declared war on the government. But the government has an army, and is preparing systematically." Written to Smilga, Chairman Of The Regional Committee Of The Army, Navy And Workers Of Finland.
