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Decision to Form Workers' and Peasants' Government: 2nd Congress of Soviets

Decision to Form Workers’ and Peasants’ Government: 2nd Congress of Soviets

Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies – October 26 (November 8 on the modern calendar), 1917

The All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies resolves:

To establish a provisional workers’ and peasants’ government, to be know as the Council of People’s Commissars, to govern the country until the Constituent Assembly is convened.…

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The victorious Congress of Soviets

The victorious Congress of Soviets

In Smolny on the 25th of October the most democratic of all parliaments in the world’s history was to meet. Who knows – perhaps also the most important.

Having got free of the influence of compromisist intellectuals, the local soviets had sent up for the most part workers and soldiers. The majority of them were people without big names, but who had proved themselves in action and won lasting…

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"And so, be merciless against the Left S.R.s and report more frequently."

Telegram to J.V. Stalin (Tsaritsyn to People's Commissar Stalin), July 3, 1918, 1 a.m.