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

297TO THE POPULATIONComrades—workers, soldiers, peasants and all workingpeople!The workers’ and peasants’ revolution has definitelytriumphed in Petrograd, having dispersed or arrested thelast remnants of the small number of Cossacks deceived byKerensky. The revolution has triumphed in Moscow too.Even before the arrival of a number of troop trains dispatchedfrom Petrograd, the officer cadets and other Kornilovitesin Moscow signed peace terms—the disarming of the cadetsand the dissolution of the Committee of Salvation. 119Daily and hourly reports are coming in from the frontand from the villages announcing the support of the overwhelmingmajority of the soldiers in the trenches and thepeasants in the uyezds for the new government and its decreeson peace and the immediate transfer of the land to the peasants.The victory of the workers’ and peasants’ revolutionis assured because the majority of the people have alreadysided with it.It is perfectly understandable that the landowners andcapitalists, and the top groups of office employees and civilservants closely linked with the bourgeoisie, in a word, allthe wealthy and those supporting them, react to the newrevolution with hostility, resist its victory, threaten toclose the banks, disrupt or bring to a standstill the work ofthe different establishments, and hamper the revolution inevery way, openly or covertly. Every politically-consciousworker was well aware that we would inevitably encounterresistance of this kind. The entire Party press of