The Crisis Has Matured "The crisis has matured. The whole future of the Russian revolution is at stake. The honour of the Bolshevik Party is in question. The whole future of the international workers' revolution for socialism is at stake."
Letter To The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.) "Here we have strike-breaking in the full sense of the term."
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."
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.
The Tasks of the Revolution "Discontent, indignation and wrath are growing in the army, among the peasantry and among the workers. The "coalition" of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks with the bourgeoisie, promising everything and fulfilling nothing, is irritating the masses, is opening their eyes, is pushing them towards insurrection."
Advice of an Onlooker "The success of both the Russian and the world revolution depends on two or three days' fighting."
Letter to the Bolshevik Comrades "The slogan "All Power to the Soviets" is a slogan of insurrection. Whoever uses this slogan without having grasped this and given thought to it will have only himself to blame. And insurrection must be treated as an art." A letter written for the comrades attending the Congress of Soviets of The Northern Region.
The Russian Revolution: Before 1917 - The Gathering Storm 1917 was the year the Russian revolution changed the course of world history. But before the masses took to the stage, a whole period had prepared the fall of Tsarism. While the reign of Nicholas II appeared strong on the surface it was rotten to the core.