On this point see E. D. Orekhova, "K izucheniiu istochnikov о sozdanii Petrogradskogo voenno-revoliutsionnogo komiteta," in D. A. Chugaev, ed., Istoch- nikovedenie istorii sovetskogo obshchestva, vypusk 2 (Moscow, 1968), p. 15. The text of Broido's resolution is contained in Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, pp. 237-38.
According to some writers, the full text of this resolution has not been found. Judging by press accounts of the October 9 Petrograd Soviet Executive Committee meeting, it was probably nearly identical to a Bolshevik resolution presented later the same day to a plenary session of the Petrograd Soviet. The complete text of the latter is contained in Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, p. 238.
Birzhevye vedomosti, October 10, morning edition, p. 4. The fullest analysis of the creation of the Military Revolutionary Committee and of the relevant primary sources is Orekhova, "K izucheniiu istochnikov о sozdanni Petrogradskogo voenno- revoliutsionnogo komiteta."
See, for example, History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course (New York, 1939), pp. 205-6.
Akademiia nauk SSSR, Institut istorii, et al., Petrogradskii voenno- revoliutsionnyi komitet: Dokumenty i materialy, ed. D. A. Chugaev, et al., 3 vols. (Moscow, 1966). See in particular the editors' introduction to vol. 1, pp. 5-6.
This is acknowledged by some present-day historians in the Soviet Union; see for example the statement of Iu. S. Tokarev in Lenin i oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, p. 168. After recounting accurately the Military Revolutionary Committee's evolution, Tokarev adds: "All these facts were certainly well known earlier, but in the conditions prevailing during the cult of personality, historians could not criticize any of the Short Course's interpretations and were forced to follow them."
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, pp. 40-41.
Pervyi legal'nyi Peterburgskii komitet, p. 318.
Protokoly TsentraVnogo komiteta, p. 104.
Ibid., pp. 106-8. On this point, see Orekhova, "K izucheniiu istochnikov о sozdanii Petrogradskogo voenno-revoliutsionnogo komiteta," pp. 25-26.
Protokoly TsentraVnogo komiteta, p. 108.
The exact date of this meeting has not been established. The conflicting evidence and differing points of view on this matter are analyzed by E. D. Orekhova and A. S. Pokrovskii, "O datirovke vstrech V. I. Lenina s rukovo- diteliami Voennoi organizatsii bol'shevikov i Petrogradskogo VRK v oktiabre 1917 g.," in D. A. Chugaev, ed., Istochnikovedenie istorii sovetskogo obshchestva, vypusk 2 (Moscow, 1968), pp. 56-78. Having studied the available published evidence, I believe that this meeting could not have occurred prior to October 20, and that it probably took place between the latter date and the twenty-third.
N. I. Podvoiskii, "O voennoi deiatel'nosti V. I. Lenina," Kommunist, 1957, no. 1, p. 37.
V. I. Nevskii, "Voennaia organizatsiia i oktiabr'skaia revoliutsiia," Krasnoarmeets, 1919, nos. 10-15, pp. 42-43.
Antonov-Ovseenko, "Revoliutsiia pobedila," Krasnaia gazeta, November 7, 1923, p. 3.
Podvoiskii, "O voennoi deiatel'nosti V. I. Lenina," p. 35.
N. I. Podvoiskii, "Voennaia organizatsiia TsK RSDRP(b) i voenno- revoliutsionnyi komitet 1917 g.," KL, 1923, no. 8, p. 16.
Nevskii, "Voennaia organizatsiia i oktiabr'skaia revoliutsiia," p. 43; Antonov-Ovseenko, "Baltflot v dni kerenshchiny i krasnogo oktiabria," pp. 122-25. In this connection Nevsky was now hurriedly dispatched to Helsingfors to help coordinate the mobilization of revolutionary forces there.
Rabochii put', October 20, p. 2.
Delo naroda, October 20, p. 4; Novaia zhizn1, October 20, p. 3; Golos soldata, October 20, p. 5.
While information relating to the functioning of the committee is fragmentary, there appears to have been no definite operating procedure prior to the October revolution.
I have made this error myself. See Rabinowitch, "The Petrograd Garrison and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power," in Revolution and Politics in Russia, p. 188.
In this regard, see Ia. P. Birzhal, "Krestnyi khod," in Petrograd v dni veli- kogo oktiabria, pp. 287-89.
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, pp. 55-56.
Golos soldata, October 21, p. 3; Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 169-70; Trotskii, Socbineniia, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 36-37.
"Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote," PR, 1922, no. 10, p. 87; K. A. Mekhonoshin, "Shtab oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii (beseda s tov. Mekhonoshinym)," Agit-Rosta, October 26, 1919, p. 1.
E. F. Erykalov, Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde (Leningrad, 1966), p. 298; see also Golos soldata, October 24, p. 3.
Mekhonoshin, Agit-Rosta, October 26, 1919, p. 1; S. Piontkovskii, "Voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet v oktiabr'skie dni,"/^, 1927, no. 10, pp. 114—15.
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, p. 63.
"Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote," p. 53.
Reiman, Russkaia revoliutsiia, vol. 2, p. 385.
Rech', October 24, p. 5.
Ibid.
Sukhanov, Zapiski 0 revoliutsii, vol. 7, pp. 90-91.
Golos soldata, October 24, p. 3;Rech\ October 24, p. 3.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, p. 277.
Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, pp. 151-52.
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, pp. 67-68.
Antonov-Ovseenko, Krasnaiagazeta, November 7, 1923, p. 3.
Antonov-Ovseenko, V semnadtsatom godu (Moscow, 1933), p. 133.
Rech\, October 24, p. 3.
M. Lashevich, "Pervyi voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet," Krasnaia gazeta, November 7, 1920, p. 4.
M. Lashevich, "Oktiabr'skie dni v Petrograde," Politrabotnik Sibiri, 1922, no. 11, p. 5.
See, for example, Kamkov's impassioned arguments against an uprising at the First All-Russian Conference of Factory-Shop Committees, which took place in Petrograd October 17-22 {Rabochii i soldat, October 22, p. 5). Following debate on "the current moment," the conference adopted a relatively innocuously worded Bolshevik statement, which affirmed that the survival of the revolution and the achievement of the goals of the laboring classes lay in transfer of power to the soviets, but which remained silent about how and when such a transfer would come about. See Komissiia po izucheniiu istorii professional'nogo dvizheniia v SSSR, Oktiabr'skaia revoliutsiia i fabzavkomy: Materialy po istorii fabrichno-zavodskikh komitetw, 2 vols. (Moscow, 1927), vol. 2, p. 167.
Rabinowitch, Prelude to Revolution, pp. 76-77.
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, p. 74.
Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, p. 160.
Erykalov, Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde, p. 312.
Antonov-Ovseenko, "Oktiabr'skaia buria "Pervyi narodnyi kalendar' na 1919 g. (Petrograd, 1919), p. 102. On continuing Left SR threats to leave the committee, see Mekhonoshin, Agit-Rosta, October 26, 1919, p. 1.