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."
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."
Advice of an Onlooker "The success of both the Russian and the world revolution depends on two or three days' fighting."
The Tasks Of Our Party in the International "The composition of the Conference was very mixed—even absurd, for the people who got together were not in agreement on the main thing, and therefore were incapable of really unanimous action, of really acting together"
Letter To The Petrograd City Conference "We must mobilise all forces to convince the workers and soldiers that it is absolutely imperative to wage a last, desperate and decisive fight for the overthrow of the Kerensky government."
Socialist-Revolutionary Party Cheats The Peasants Once Again "The peasants must know that it is only the workers’ party, the Bolsheviks, who are prepared to stand to the last for the interests of the poor peasants and all working people against the capitalists and the landowners."
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."
Theses for a Report at the October 8 Conference of the Petrograd Organisation, Also for a Resolution and Instructions to Those Elected to the Party Congress "All the best forces of the Party must be sent to the factories and barracks to explain to the masses their task and, taking their mood correctly in account, choose the proper moment for overthrowing the Kerensky government."
Letter to the Central Committee, The Moscow And Petrograd Committees and the Bolshevik Members of the Petrograd and Moscow Soviets "Victory is certain, and the chances are ten to one that it will be a bloodless victory."
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."
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.
