102. Ibid, 2–5; emphasis supplied.
103. Lenin, Sochineniia, XXI, 512, note 18.
104. Revoliutsiia, III, 383–84.
105. Leningradskii Istpart, Vtoraia i tret’ia Petrogradskie Obshchegorodskie Konferentsii Bol’shevikov (Moscow-Leningrad, 1927), 77.
106. Izvestiia, No. 164 (September 5, 1917).
107. Izvestiia, No. 195 (October 12, 1917), 1.
108. Ibid., No. 200 (October 18, 1917), 1.
109. Lenin, PSS, XXXIV, 239–41
110. Ibid., 245.
111. L. Trotsky, The History of the Russian Revolution, III (New York, 1937), 355.
112. Protokoly Tsentral’nogo Komiteta RSDRP (b) (Moscow, 1958), 74.
113. SD, No. 169 (September 28, 1917), 1.
114. Lenin, PSS, XXXIV, 403, 405.
115. Izvestiia, No. 186 (October 1, 1917), 8.
116. Revoliutsiia, V, 53; Izvestiia, No. 197 (October 14, 1917), 5.
117. NZh, No. 138, September 27, 1917, 3.
118. Leonard Schapiro, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (London, 1960), 164.
119. Revoliutsiia, IV, 197, 214.
120. Ibid, 256.
121. Protokoly TsK, 73, 76.
122. Revoliutsiia, V, 65.
123. Protokoly TsK, 264; Revoliutsiia, V, 63.
124. Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power (New York, 1976), 209–11.
125. Revoliutsiia, V, 71–72.
126. Ibid., 65.
127. NZh, No. 138/132 (September 27, 1917), 3.
128. Revoliutsiia, V, 78.
129. Ibid., 246, 254.
130. See the government’s declaration of September 25–27 in Revoliutsiia, IV, 403–6.
131. Izvestiia, No. 201 (October 19, 1917), 7.
132. Ibid, No. 200 (October 18, 1917), 1.
133. Ibid., No. 203 (October 21, 1917), 5.
134. Revoliutsiia, V, 109; NZh, No. 156/150 (October 18, 1917), 3.
135. The operation is described in M. Schwarte et al, Der Grosse Krieg, 1914–1918: Der deutsche Landkrieg (Leipzig, 1925), Pt. 3, 323–27.
136. Revoliutsiia, V, 30–31.
137. Izvestiia, No. 191 (October 7, 1917), 4; Revoliutsiia, V, 37.
138. Revoliutsiia, V, 38, 67.
139. Ibid., 52.
140. Ibid., 52, 237–38.
141. PR, No. 10 (1922), 53–54.
142. Ibid., 86.
143. I. I. Mints, ed., Dokumenty velikoi proletarskoi revoliutsii, I (Moscow, 1938), 22.
144. Rabochii put’, No. 33 (1917), cited in Revoliutsiia, V, 238.
145. Trotsky, History, III, 353.
146. Rabochii put’, No. 35 (1917), cited in Revoliutsiia, V, 70–71; Izvestiia, No. 197 (October 14, 1917). 5.
147. Utro Rossii, cited in Melgunov, Kak bol’sheviki, 34n.
148. Izvestiia, No. 199 (October 17, 1917), 8; Revoliutsiia, V, 101.
149. Izvestiia, No. 201 (October 19, 1917), 5.
150. Revoliutsiia, V, 132.
151. N. Sukhanov, Zapiski o revoliutsii, VII (Berlin-Petersburg-Moscow, 1923), 90–92.
152. Protokoly TsK, 83–86.
153. L. Trotskii, O Lenine (Moscow, 1924), 70–73.
154. Ibid., 70–71.
155. Protokoly TsK, 87–92.
156. Ibid., 86; Trotskii, O Lenine, 72.
157. Iu. Kamenev in NZh, No. 156/150 (October 18, 1917), 3.
158. Truncated minutes in Protokoly TsK, 106–21.
159. Ibid., 113.
160. DN, No. 154 (September 11, 1917), 3, and No. 169 (October 1, 1917), 1.
161. Trotskii, O Lenine, 69.
162. Mints, Dokumenty, I, 3.
163. C. Malaparte, Coup d’Etat: The Technique of Revolution (New York, 1932), 180.
164. V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, V semnadtsatom godu (Moscow, 1933), 276.
165. Robert V. Daniels, Red October (New York, 1967), 118.
166. See Kritika, IV, No. 3 (Spring 1968), 21–32; N. I. Podvoiskii, God 1917 (Moscow, 1958), 104.
167. Trotsky, History, III, 290–91.
168. G. L. Sobolev in IZ, No. 88 (1971), 77.
169. Sukhanov, Zapiski, VII, 161.
170. O. Dzenis in Living Age, No. 4,049 (February 11, 1922), 328.
171. Izvestiia, No. 204 (October 22, 1917), 3; Revoliutsiia, V, 144–45.
172. Podvoiskii, God 1917, 106–8.
173. Melgunov, Kak bol’sheviki, 68–69; Antonov-Ovseenko, Vsemnadtsatom godu, 283; NZh, No. 161/155 (October 24, 1917), 3.
174. D. A. Chugaev, ed., Petrogradskii Voenno-Revoliutsionnyi Komitet: Dokumenty i materialy, I (Moscow, 1966), 63. This declaration first appeared on October 24 in the Bolshevik daily Rabochii put’.
175. NZh, No. 161/155 (October 24, 1917), 3.
176. Protokoly TsK, 119, 269; Revoliutsiia, V, 160.
177. A. Sadovskii in PR, No. 10 (1922), 76–77; Revoliutsiia, V, 151; Melgunov, Kak bol’sheviki, 69.
178. Revoliutsiia, V, 163–64; Melgunov, Kak bol’sheviki, 69.
179. Revoliutsiia, V, 111–12.
180. Nabokov and the Provisional Government, 78.
181. G. Buchanan, My Mission to Russia (Boston, 1923), II, 201; Cf. J. Noulens, Mon Ambassade en Russie Soviétique, 1917–1919, I (Paris, 1933), 116.
182. Buchanan, Mission, II, 214.
183. KA, 1/56 (1933), 137.
184. Melgunov, Kak bol’sheviki, 93–94.
185. Ibid., 88–89.
186. P. N. Maliantovich in Byloe, No. 12 (1918), 113.
187. Revoliutsiia, V, 164, 263–64.
188. SD, No. 193 (October 26, 1917), 1.
189. Trotskii, O Lenine, 74.
190. Maliantovich in Byloe, No. 12 (1918), 114.
191. Ibid., 115.
192. Melgunov, Kak bol’sheviki, 84–85; Alexander Kerensky, Russia and History’s Turning Point (New York, 1965), 435–36.
193. S. Uralov in PR, No. 10/33 (1924), 277.
194. Lenin, PSS, XXXVI, 15–16.
195. Trotsky, History, III, 305–6.
196. K. G. Kotelnikov, ed., Vtoroi Vserossiiskii S”ezd Sovetov R. i S.D. (Moscow-Leningrad, 1928), 164, 166.