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

MEETING OF PETROGRAD SOVIET2412RESOLUTIONThe Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputieshails the victorious revolution of the proletariat and thegarrison of Petrograd. The Soviet particularly emphasisesthe solidarity, organisation, discipline and complete unanimitydisplayed by the masses in this unusually bloodlessand unusually successful uprising.It is the unshakable conviction of the Soviet that theworkers’ and peasants’ government which will be created bythe revolution, as a Soviet government, and which willensure the urban proletariat the support of the whole massof the poor peasantry, will firmly advance towards socialism,the only means of saving the country from the untoldmiseries and horrors of war.The new workers’ and peasants’ government will immediatelypropose a just and democratic peace to all belligerentnations.It will immediately abolish landed proprietorship andhand over the land to the peasants. It will institute workers’control over the production and distribution of goods andestablish national control over the banks, at the same timetransforming them into a single state enterprise.The Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputiescalls on all workers and all peasants to support the workers’and peasants’ revolution devotedly and with all their energy.The Soviet expresses the conviction that the urban workers,in alliance with the poor peasants, will display strict,