Proclamation by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the fall of the Provisional Government of Russia, issued the night of November 7 (October 25, Old Style), 1917. From the 1967 Signet edition of Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed.
[From the Russian]To the Citizens of Russia!The Provisional Government is deposed. The State Power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, the Military Revolutionary Committee, which stands at the head of the Petrograd proletariat and garrison.The cause for which the people were fighting: immediate proposal of a democratic peace, abolition of landlord property-rights over the land, labor control over production, creation of a Soviet Government—that cause is securely achieved.Long live the revolution of workmen, soldiers and peasants!Military Revolutionary CommitteePetrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
"To the Citizens of Russia!The Provisional Government is deposed. The State Power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, the Military Revolutionary Committee, which stands at the head of the Petrograd proletariat and garrison.The cause for which the people were fighting: immediate proposal of a democratic peace, abolition of landlord property-rights over the land, labor control over production, creation of a Soviet Government—that cause is securely achieved.Long live the revolution of workmen, soldiers and peasants!Military Revolutionary CommitteePetrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies."
Proclamation by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the fall of the Provisional Government of Russia, issued the night of November 7 (October 25, Old Style), 1917. The Bolsheviks had seized control of Petrograd the night of November 6–7 — telephone and telegraph exchanges, the State Bank, rail stations and bridges. John Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, helped distribute this proclamation after the surrender of the Winter Palace where most of the government ministers were meeting. The Provisional Government supported continuing the war, and had been unable to resolve the demands for the distribution of land to the peasants who worked it.
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed, page 102, publisher: Signet Books, publication date: 1967
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