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

239MEETING OF THE PETROGRAD SOVIETOF WORKERS’ AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIESOCTOBER 25 (NOVEMBER 7), 1917 991REPORT ON THE TASKS OF THE SOVIET POWERNEWSPAPER REPORTComrades, the workers’ and peasants’ revolution, aboutthe necessity of which the Bolsheviks have always spoken, hasbeen accomplished.What is the significance of this workers’ and peasants’revolution? Its significance is, first of all, that we shall havea Soviet government, our own organ of power, in which thebourgeoisie will have no share whatsoever. The oppressedmasses will themselves create a power. The old state apparatuswill be shattered to its foundations and a new administrativeapparatus set up in the form of the Soviet organisations.From now on, a new phase in the history of Russia begins,and this, the third Russian revolution, should in the endlead to the victory of socialism.One of our urgent tasks is to put an immediate end tothe war. It is clear to everybody that in order to end thiswar, which is closely bound up with the present capitalistsystem, capital itself must be fought.We shall be helped in this by the world working-classmovement, which is already beginning to develop in Italy,Britain and Germany.The proposal we make to international democracy fora just and immediate peace will everywhere awaken an ardentresponse among the international proletarian masses. Allthe secret treaties 100 must be immediately published inorder to strengthen the confidence of the proletariat.