Etiqueta: Vladimir Ilich (Lenin)

  • A Rally Of Red Army Men At Khodynka

    (Enthusiastic applause.) The Russian revolution has charted the road to socialism for the whole world and has shown the bourgeoisie that their triumph is coming to an end. Our revolution is taking place amidst the frightful hardships of world slaughter. Revolutions are not made to order; but there are sure signs that the whole world…

  • We have deposed the Government of Kerenski

    We have deposed the Government of Kerenski, which rose against the revolution and the people. The change which resulted in the deposition of the Provisional Government was accomplished without bloodshed. The Petrograd Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates solemnly welcomes the accomplished change and proclaims the authority of the Military Revolutionary Committee until the creation…

  • All Power to the Soviets!

    “Drive nature out of the door and she will rush back through the window.” It seems that the Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik parties have to “learn” this simple truth time and again by their own experience. They under took to be “revolutionary democrats” and found themselves in the shoes of revolutionary democrats—they are now forced to…

  • The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat

    The [Russian] Social Democratic Party, as the conscious exponent of the working-class movement, aims at the complete liberation of the toiling masses from every form of oppression and exploitation. The achievement of this objective—the abolition of private property in the means of production and the creation of the socialist society—calls for a very high development…