Plekhanov on Terror "When that Kerenskyof yours reintroduced capital punishment at the front, that was not terror, gentlemen, was it?"
The Irregular Actions of People’s Commissar for Justice I. Z. Steinberg and Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Justice V. A. Karelin Draft Decision for C.P.C. on 'The Irregular Actions of People’s Commissar for Justice I. Z. Steinberg and Member of the Board of the People’s Commissariat for Justice V. A. Karelin'.
Resolution Of The Council Of People’s Commissars On Negotiations With The Rada "Only the Soviets of the Ukrainian poor peasants, workers and soldiers could set up a power in the Ukraine under which clashes between fraternal peoples would be impossible."
On The Opening Of The Constituent Assembly "The Council of People’s Commissars deems it necessary to declare that these are absolutely false rumours, deliberately and maliciously spread by the enemies of the Soviets of Peasants’, Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies."
Questions To Delegates To The Army Congress On The Demobilisation Of The Army "Should we at once undertake intensive agitation against the Germans’ annexationist policy and for a revolutionary war?"
Speech On The Nationalisation Of The Banks "The adoption of the decree is urgent, otherwise opposition and sabotage will ruin us."
Draft decree on the nationalisation of the banks and on measures necessary for its implementation "The workers and office employees of the nationalised enterprises must exert every effort and adopt extraordinary measures to improve the organisation of the work, strengthen discipline and raise the productivity of labour."
Speech At The Extraordinary All-Russia Congress Of Railwaymen "Only by joining efforts with you can we overcome the disorder and strengthen the power of the workers, soldiers and peasants. Soviet power has no other support than that of the broad working masses."
Staff Salaries in Government Offices Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onStaff Salaries in Government Offices, written December 13 (26), 1917.
How to Organise Competition? "We must fight against the old habit of regarding the measure of labour and the means of production from the point of view of the slave whose sole aim is to lighten the burden of labour or to obtain at least some little bit from the bourgeoisie."
Answers to Questions Put by a Workers’ Delegation of Alexandro-Grushevsky District "Our troops are moving in the direction of Kaledin’s troops in sufficient numbers."
Speech At A Meeting Of The Central Committee Of The R.S.D.L.P.(B.) December 24 (11), 1917 "It was raised in view of the fact that “right-wing sentiments have prevailed in the group, whose views differ from those of the Central Committee”."
Report On The Economic Condition Of Petrograd Workers And The Tasks Of The Working Class "The illusion that only the bourgeoisie could run the state must be fought against. The proletariat must take the rule of the state upon itself."
Manifesto To The Ukrainian People "We, the Council of People’s Commissars, recognise at once, unconditionally and without reservations everything that pertains to the Ukrainian people’s national rights and national independence."
Speech Delivered At The Second All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Peasants’ Deputies "We therefore declare that the party of the Cadets is a party of the bourgeoisie, that they are enemies of the people, and that we shall fight them."
For Bread And Peace "The socialist revolution that has begun in Russia is, therefore, only the beginning of the world socialist revolution."
The Conversion of Munition Works to Economically Useful Work Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars, writtenDecember 12 (November29), 1917.
