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

548 NOTES818283848586The Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) held an enlargedmeeting at the Lesnovskaya District Council in Petrograd withKalinin in the chair) on October 16 (29), 1917. It heard Lenin’sreport on the C.C. October 10 (23) resolution calling for an armeduprising. Kamenev and Zinoviev once again opposed the ideaof an insurrection on the plea that the Bolsheviks were not strongenough and should await the Constituent Assembly. The resolutionwas resolutely supported by Dzerzhinsky, Kalinin Rahja,Sverdlov, Skrypnik and others who sharply criticised Kamenev’sand Zinoviev’s back- tracking. Lenin’s resolution was adopted by19 votes to 2, with four abstentions. A closed meeting of the CentralCommittee set up a Revolutionary Military Centre to directthe insurrection. It was to be a part of the Soviet RevolutionaryMilitary Committee. p. 191A reference to the enlarged Central Committee meeting on October16 (29), 1917. Lenin remained in hiding in Petrograd andchanged the date of the meeting to October 15 (28) in order to concealhis presence at the meeting; for reasons of secrecy he referred toa comrade who had allegedly informed him of the meeting.p. 195The peasant movement in Tambov Gubernia in September 1917assumed great proportions: the peasants seized tracts of landedestates, destroyed and burned landowners’ mansions and confiscatedgrain stocks. In September, 82 landowners’ estates weredestroyed in 68 gubernias and regions, including 32 in TambovGubernia. Altogether there is a record of 166 peasant manifestationsin the gubernia, especially in Kozlov Uyezd. The frightenedlandowners took their grain to the railway stations in an effortto sell it, so that the railway junctures were literally swamped withgrain. The commanding officer of the Moscow Military Districtsent military units to Tambov Gubernia to crush the peasant uprising,and imposed martial law, but the peasants’ revolutionarystruggle for land continued to grow in scope. p. 197Scheidemann, Philip (1865- 1939)—a leader of the extreme Rightwingopportunist section of German Social- Democracy, and anorganiser of the bloody suppression of the German working- classmovement in 1918-21.Renaudel, Pierre (1871- 1935)—a reformist leader of the FrenchSocialist Party. p. 203Planson, A. A.—a Popular Socialist, and member of the CentralExecutive Committee (First Convocation). A leader of Vikzhel—the All- Russia Executive Committee of the Railwaymen’s TradeUnion, an organisation run by the compromisers. p. 206Novoye Vremya (New Times)—a daily published in Petersburgfrom 1868 to 1917, by various publishers. It changed political