Latsis, Petrogradskaia pravda, November 5, 1922, p. 2.
See, for example, Kamkov's comments in Protokoly pervago s"ezda partii levykh sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov, pp. 40-41.
O. P. Dzenis, "Как my brali 25 okt. zimnii dvorets,"Pravda, November 6-7, 1921, p. 7; O. P. Dzenis, "Pod zimnim dvortsom," in Velikaia oktiabr'skaia sotsialis- ticheskaia revoliutsiia: Sbornik vospominanii, p. 270.
A. Ignat'ev, "V noch' na 25 oktiabria 1917 goda," KL, 1923, no. 6, p. 314.
Baltiiskie moriaki v podgotovke i provedenii velikoi oktiabr'skoi sotsialisticheskoi revoliutsii, p. 259; P. Kurkov, "Kreiser 'Avrora,' " KL, 1923, no. 6, p. 360.
Ibid.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, pp. 324-35.
Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, p. 175.
Ibid., pp. 175-76.
Izvestiia, October 26, p. 3; some two hundred cossacks of the Fourteenth Cossack Regiment reported to the Winter Palace; however, this token detachment was not enough to alter the government's situation.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Retrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, p. 340.
A. V. Liverovskii, "Poslednie chasy Vremennogo pravitel'stva: Dnevnik ministra Liverovskogo," Istoricheskii arkhiv, 1960, no. 6, p. 41.
59. V. Miliutin, 0 Lenine (Leningrad, 1924), pp. 4-5; Rakh'ia, "Moi predoktiabr'skie i posleoktiabr'skie vstrechi s Leninym," p. 36; see also Reiman, Russkaia revoliutsiia, vol. 2, p. 332.
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Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 348-50; "Baltflot v dni kerenshchiny i krasnogo oktiabria," pp. 123-24.
I. P. Flerovskii, "Kronshtadt v oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii," PR, 1922, no. 10, pp. 136-37.
Baltiiskie moriaki, p. 270.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, p. 330; K. Eremeev, "Osada zimnego," Bakinskii rabochii, November 7, 1927, p. 9. See also Dzenis, "Как my brali 25 okt. zimnii dvorets," p. 7, and G. I. Blagonravov, "Oktiabr'skie dni v pet- ropavlovskoi kreposti," PR, 1922, no. 4, p. 33.
Lenin, PSS, vol. 35, p. 1.
V. I. Startsev, "Begstvo Kerenskogo," Voprosy istorii, 1966, no. 11, pp. 204—5; for Kerensky's version of this episode, see Russia and History's Turning Point, pp. 437-39.
Rech', October 26, p. 2; Novaia zhizn', October 26, p. 2; Izvestiia, October 26, pp. 3-4.
Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, p. 177.
I. Pavlov, "Avral'naia rabota 25-go oktiabria 1917 goda," Krasnyi Jlot, 1926, nos. 10-11, p. 25.
Flerovskii, "Kronshtadt v oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii," p. 139.
Ibid., pp. 139-40; Pavlov, "Avral'naia rabota 25-go oktiabria 1917 goda," P- 25.
Riabinskii, Khronika sobytii, vol. 5, pp. 179-80\ Izvestiia, October 26, p. 7; October 27, pp. 4-5.
Ibid.
P. V. Dashkevich, "Oktiabr'skie dni," Leningradskaia pravda, November 7, 1924, p. 11.
"Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote,"PR, 1922, no. 10, pp. 84—85.
A. Tarasov-Rodionov, "Pervaia operatsiia," Voennyi vestnik, 1924, no. 42, p. 12; "Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote," PR, 1922, no. 10, pp. 78-79.
V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, "Baltflot v dni kerenshchiny i krasnogo oktiabria," pp. 124-29; Antonov-Ovseenko, "Revoliutsiia pobedila," Krasnaia gazeta, November 7, 1923, p. 3.
Kostiukov, "Как my opozdali ко vziatiu zimnego dvortsa," Krasnyi balteets, 1920, no. 6, p. 36.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, p. 346.
Blagonravov, "The Fortress of Peter and Paul, October 1917," in Petrograd October 1911 (Moscow, 1957), p. 206.
"Vospominaniia ob oktiabr'skom perevorote," PR, 1922, no. 10, p. 79.
John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World (New York, 1960), p. 116.
G. Chudnovskii, "V zimnem dvortse pered sdachei," Pravda, November 21, 1917, p. 2; P. V. Dashkevich, "Oktiabr'skie dni," Leningradskaia pravda, November 7, p. 11.
See, in particular, Liverovskii, "Poslednie chasy Vremmenogo pravitel'stva"; P. N. Maliantovich, "V zimnem dvortse 25-26 obtiabria 1917 goda," Byloe, 1918, no. 12, pp. 111-41; P. N. Pal'chinskii, "Dnevnik," Krasnyi arkhiv, 1933, no. 56, pp. 136-38; A. M. Nikitin, "Rasskaz A. M. Nikitina," Rabochaia gazeta, October 28, p. 2; "Как zaniali zimnii dvorets," Delo naroda, October 29, pp. 1-2; A. Sinegub, "Zashchita zimnego dvortsa," Arkhiv russkoi revoliutsii, 1922, no. 4, pp. 121-97. The most useful secondary source on the final hours of the Provisional Government is V. I. Startsev, "Poslednii den' Vremennogo pravitel'stva," in Iz istorii velikoi oktiabrskoi sotsialisticheskoi revoliutsii i sotsialisticheskogo stroitel'stva v SSSR (Leningrad, 1967), pp. 99-115.
Liverovskii, "Poslednie chasy Vremennogo pravitel'stva," pp. 42-43.
Startsev, "Poslednii den' Vremennogo pravitel'stva," p. 101.
The text of this ultimatum is contained in Liverovskii, "Poslednie chasy Vremennogo pravitel'stva," p. 45.
Edinstvo, October 27, p. 3.
Maliantovich, "V zimnem dvortse," p. 120.
Ibid., p. 121.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 407-8.
Edinstvo, October 27, p. 3.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie, vol. 2, p. 343; Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 395-96, 407-8. For Cheremisov, this conversation was apparently the last straw, helping to confirm his conviction that the Provisional Government was totally bankrupt. Much more than most other top military leaders, Cheremisov had been sensitive and responsive to revolutionary sentiment in the army throughout 1917. Initially antagonized by Kerensky in late July at the time of Kornilov's appointment as chief of staff, during the first weeks of October Cheremisov gave only reluctant and half-hearted support to Kerensky's attempts to involve front-line forces in support of the Provisional Government. Now, on the night of October 25, learning firsthand of Kishkin's appointment, of the military shakeup in Petrograd, and of the occupation of General Staff headquarters, he issued an order immediately halting the movement of troops to Petrograd, significantly undercutting Kerensky's hopes of mobilizing help at the front.
Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde: Dokumenty i materialy, pp. 414—15.
Erykalov, Oktiabr'skoe vooruzhennoe vosstanie v Petrograde, pp. 314-17 and 444, drawing upon the journals of the Petrograd City Duma and the stenographic accounts of its proceedings, August 20, 1917, convocation; see also I. Milchik, "Pet- rogradskaia tsentral'naia gorodskaia duma v fevrale-oktiabre 1917 goda," KL, 1927, no. 2 (23), p. 201.