Izvestiia, October 25, p. 7; Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, p. 161.
Oktiabrskoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 281-82.
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G. Lomov, "V dni buri i natiska," Izvestiia, November 6, 1918, p. 4; G. Lomov, "V dni buri i natiska," PR, 1927, no. 10 (69), pp. 169-70.
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, p. 86; M. Lashevich, "Vosstanie," Petrogradskaia pravda, November 5, 1922, p. 8; Antonov-Ovseenko, "Oktiabr'skaia buria," Izvestiia, November 6, 1918, pp. 3-4.
Izvestiia, October 25, p. 7; Izvestiia Kronshtadtskogo soveta, November 5, pp.
3-4.
Petrogradskii voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet, vol. 1, p. 85; Trotskii, Sochineniia, vol. 3, part 2, p. 51.
Protokoly TsentraVnogo komiteta, pp. 119-21.
B. Elov, "PK nakanune 25-go oktiabria," Petrogradskaia pravda, November 5, 1922, p. 2. Oktiabrskoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, p. 287.
"Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote," PR, 1922, no. 10, p. 92.
Den\ October 25, p. 1.
"Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote," PR, 1922, no. 10, p. 90.
Izvestiia, October 25, p. 7.
Novaia zbizn\ October 25, p. 3.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 327-28.
Polenov, "Vystrel s Avrory,' " Leningradskaiapravda, November 6-7, 1927, p. 6; Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, pp. 166-67.
The most precise and accurate count of loyalist forces is contained in Erykalov, Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde, p. 435.
Ibid., p. 318.
Sukhanov, Zapiski 0 revoliutsii, vol. 7, p. 131 Izvestiia, October 25, pp. 2-3.
Izvestiia, October 25, pp. 2-3; Rech', October 25, p. 2; a translation of Kerensky's speech appears in Browder and Kerensky, The Russian Provisional Government, vol. 3, pp. 1772-78.
Kerensky, Russia and History's Turning Point, p. 435.
Protokoly pervago s"ezda partii levykh sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov (internatsionalistov), p. 40.
Izvestiia, October 25, pp. 3-4.
See F. Dan, "K istorii poslednikh dnei Vremennogo pravitel'stva," Letopis' revoliutsii, vol. 1 (1923), pp. 163-75.
Izvestiia, October 25, p. 4; see also N. F. Slavin, "Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie i predparlament," in Lenin i oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, pp. 224-28.
Dan, "K istorii poslednikh dnei Vremennogo pravitel'stva," pp. 172-75.
Rabochaia gazeta, October 26, p. 2.
Italics mine. In some published versions of this resolution, the adjective "friendly" is substituted for "firm." The version cited appeared in Rabochaia gazeta, October 25, p. 2.
Novaia zhizn', October 26, p. 2.
S. Mstislavskii, Piat' dnei (Berlin, 1922), p. 122-23; Vtoroi vserossiiskii s"ezd sovetov R. i S. D., ed. M. N. Pokrovskii and Ia. A. Iakovlev (Moscow and Leningrad, 1928), p. 162. Mstislavskii recalls sadly that by the time he reached Smolny the evening of October 25, the SRs and Left SRs "were already sitting in different rooms."
Izvestiia, October 25, p. 7.
Il'in-Zhenevskii, "Oktiabr'skaia revoliutsiia," KL, 1926, no. 5 (20), p. 37.
Ibid.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, pp. 303-4; Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, p. 332.
S. Pestkovskii, "Ob oktiabr'skikh dniakh v Pitere," PR, 1922, no. 10, pp. 95-96; Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, p. 308.
A. M. Liubovich, "Revoliutsionnoe zaniatie petrogradskogo telegrafa," Pochtovotelegrafnyi zhurnal, 1918, no. 9-12, pp. 3 5-41.
Rech', October 26, p. 2.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, p. 338.
P. E. Dybenko, "Baltflot v oktiabr'skie dni," in Velikaia oktiabr'skaia sotsialis- ticheskaia revolutiutsiia: Sbornik vospominanii uchastnikov revoliutsii v Petrograde i Moskve (Moscow, 1957), p. 305; Petrash, Moriaki Baltiiskogo flota v bor'be za pobedu oktiabria, p. 251.
A. G. Pronin, "Podgotovka к zakhvatu vlasti," Bakinskii rabochii, November 7, 1927, p. 4.
Dybenko, "Baltflot v oktiabr'skie dni," p. 305.
Lenin, PSS, vol. 34, p. 434.
M. V. Fofanova, "Il'ich pered oktiabrem 1917 goda," in Vospominaniia 0 Vladimire Il'icbe Lenine, vol. 2, p. 448.
M. V. Fofanova, "Poslednee podopol'e," in Ob IViche: Vospominaniia piter tsev (Leningrad, 1970), p. 348.
During the Stalin period this letter was ignored, evidently because it reflected continuing differences between the Central Committee and Lenin in regard to the development of the' revolution. The letter does not contain an addressee, and headings in the post-Stalin fourth and fifth editions of Lenin's writings indicate that it was directed to the Central Committee. As a few contemporary scholars in the Soviet Union have acknowledged, however, from the content of the letter it is obvious that it was directed to lower levels of the party and was intended to stimulate them to apply pressure on the top party leadership and the Military Revolutionary Committee to arrest the members of the Provisional Government before the opening of the Congress of Soviets. On this point, see the comments of E. N. Gorodetskii and S. I. Shul'ga in Lenin i oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Retrograde, pp. 189, 478-82.
Lenin, PSS, vol. 34, pp. 435-36.
Fofanova, "Poslednee podpol'e," p. 349; E. Rakh'ia, "Poslednee podpol'e Vladimira Il'icha ," KL, 1934, no. 58, pp. 89-90; E. A. Rakh'ia, "Moi vospominaniia о Vladimire Il'iche," in Vospominaniia 0 Vladimire IViche Lenine, vol. 2, p. 434.
E. Rakh'ia, "Moi predoktiabr'skie i posleoktiabr'skie vstrechi s Leninym," Novyi mir, 1934, no. 1, pp. 35-36.
On this point, see Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, pp. 292-307. There is some indication that the Military Revolutionary Committee took control of the telephone and electrical stations only after people at Smolny began experiencing difficulties with phones and lights. The one Military Revolutionary Committee action that does not quite fit this pattern was the taking of the telegraph facilities.