Bolshevik Leaflets - October 25, 1917

October 25, 1917

The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies was opened. It represents the vast majority of Soviets. A number of delegates from peasant Soviets also attend the congress. The credentials of the conciliation CEC are over. Relying on the will of the vast majority of workers, soldiers and peasants, relying on the victorious uprising of the workers and garrison that took place in Petrograd, the congress takes power into its own hands.

The Provisional Government is deposed. Most members of the Provisional Government have already been arrested.

The Soviet government will offer an immediate democratic peace to all peoples and an immediate truce on all fronts. It will provide gratuitous transfer of landlord, specific and monastic lands to the disposal of peasant committees, the soldier's right will be defended, democratizing the army fully, establishing workers' control over production, ensuring the timely convocation of the Constituent Assembly, caring for the delivery of bread to towns and essentials for the village, the nations inhabiting Russia, the true right to self-determination.

The Congress decides: all power on the ground passes to the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, which must ensure a genuine revolutionary order.

Congress calls the soldiers in the trenches to vigilance and fortitude. The Congress of Soviets is sure that the revolutionary army will be able to defend the revolution from all encroachments of imperialism, until the new government attains the conclusion of a democratic peace that it will directly offer to all peoples. The new government will take all measures to ensure the revolutionary army with all the necessary means through a determined policy of requisition and imposition of the propertied classes, and will also improve the situation of the soldiers' families.

The Kornilovites-Kerensky, Kaledin and others-are making attempts to lead the troops to Petrograd. Several detachments, fraudulently moved by Kerensky, went over to the side of the insurgent people.

Soldiers, render active resistance to the Kornilovites Kerensky! Be on your guard!

Railwaymen, stop all the echelons sent by Kerensky to Petrograd!

Soldiers, workers, employees - in your hands the fate of the revolution and the fate of the democratic world!

Long live the revolution!

All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies

Delegates from peasant Soviets