Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

137TO WORKERS, PEASANTS, AND SOLDIERS!Comrades! The Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries, towhich Kerensky belongs, appeals to you in its paper DyeloNaroda (of September 30) “to be patient”.The paper asks us “to be patient” and urges that powerbe left in the hands of Kerensky’s government, that powershould not pass to the Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’Deputies. Let Kerensky rely on the landowners, capitalistsand kulaks, let the Soviets that have carried throughthe revolution and vanquished the Kornilovite generals“be patient”, we are told. Let them have patience until theConstituent Assembly, which will soon be convened.Comrades! Look around you, see what is happening inthe countryside, see what is happening in the army, andyou will realise that the peasants and the soldiers cannottolerate it any longer. An uprising of the peasants fromwhom the land has hitherto been withheld by fraud is sweepinglike a broad river over the whole of Russia. The peasantscannot tolerate it any longer. Kerensky sends troops to suppressthe peasants and to defend the landowners. Kerenskyhas again come to an agreement with the Kornilovite generalsand officers who stand for the landowners.Neither the workers in the cities nor the soldiers at thefront can tolerate this military suppression of the juststruggle of the peasants for the land.As to what is going on in the army at the front, Dubasov,a non-Party officer, has declared before all of Russia: “Thesoldiers will not fight any longer.” The soldiers are tired out,the soldiers are barefooted, the soldiers are starving, thesoldiers do not want to fight for the interests of the capital-