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

274WIRELESS MESSAGE OF THE COUNCILOF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARSOCTOBER 30 (NOVEMBER 12), 1917Calling EveryoneThe All-Russia Congress of Soviets has set up a new SovietGovernment. Kerensky’s government has been overthrownand arrested. Kerensky has fled. All institutions are in thehands of the Soviet Government. A revolt of officer cadetswho had been released on parole on October 25 broke out onOctober 29. The revolt was suppressed that same day.Kerensky and Savinkov, together with the officer cadets anda part of the Cossacks, have made their way by deceit toTsarskoye Syelo. The Soviet Government has musteredforces for the suppression of the new Kornilov advance onPetrograd. The fleet, headed by the armoured battleshipRepublic, has been summoned to the capital. Kerensky’sofficer cadets and Cossacks are wavering. Prisoners arrivingfrom Kerensky’s camp assure us that the Cossacks have beendeceived and that if they come to realise the true state ofaffairs they will refuse to shoot. The Soviet Government ismaking every effort to avert bloodshed. If bloodshed cannotbe avoided and if Kerensky’s units do begin to shoot, theSoviet Government will not hesitate to suppress the newKerensky-Kornilov campaign ruthlessly.We announce for your information that the Congress ofSoviets which has already dispersed, adopted two importantdecrees: (1) on the immediate transfer of all the landed estatesto the peasant committees, and (2) on the proposal of ademocratic peace.Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin),Chairman of the Soviet GovernmentIzvestia No. 212,October 31, 1917Published accordingto the newspaper text