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Speech at a Meeting of the Council of People's Commissars
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First published November 6-7, 1927 in Pravda No. 255, in an article by N. Gorbunov âHow the Working Staff of the Council of Peopleâs Commissars Was Created During the October Daysâ. Printed from the handwritten copy of the minutes.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, 1965, Moscow, Volume 42, page 35a.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, 1965, Moscow, Volume 42, page 35a.
Collection(s): Pravda
November 3 (16), 1917[edit source]
Comrade Lenin objects to any agreement whatsoever with Vikzhel,[1] which tomorrow will be overthrown in a revolutionary manner, from below. Moscow must be given creative, organising, revolutionary reinforcements from Petrogradâthe sailor element, to be exact. The food problem: we are getting supplies from the north. After winning Moscow and overthrowing Vikzhel from below we shall be getting food supplies from the Volga.
- â Vikzhelâthe All-Russia Executive Committee of the Railwaymenâs Trade Union, which was set up at the First All-Russia Inaugural Congress of the Railwaymen held in Moscow in July-August 1917. The Executive was controlled by the Menshoviks and Socialist- Revolutionaries. After the victory of the armed uprising in Petrograd this Executive Committee became a bulwark of the counter-revolution. Taking refuge behind statements declaring its neutrality and calling for cessation of the civil war, Vikzhel hindered the dispatch of revolutionary troops from Petrograd to Moscow, where fighting was still going on for the establishment of Soviet power, and threatened to stop railway traffic. On October 29 (November 11), 1917, Vikzhel adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a new, âhomogeneous socialist governmentâ to include representatives of all the parties âfrom the Bolsheviks to the Popular Socialistsâ. Vikzhelâs counter-revolutionary policy and actions were strongly disapproved by the rank and file. At the All-Russia Emergency Congress of the Railwaymen held in January 1918 Vikzhel was dismissed, and a new governing body of the Railwaymenâs Union, Vikzhedor, was elected in which the Bolsheviks formed the preponderant majority..