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

THE LIFE AND WORK OF V. I. LENIN587Lenin presides at a meeting of the Council ofPeople’s Commissars to discuss Nogin’s report onthe situation in Moscow and objects to any agreementwith the Vikzhel.November 4 (17)Lenin attends a meeting of the All-Russia CentralExecutive Committee, speaks on the question ofthe press and on the resignation of Nogin, Rykov,Milyutin and Teodorovich and replies to thequestions of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.Lenin speaks at a meeting of the Petrograd Sovietand front-line delegates on the programme andtasks of the Soviet Government.November 5 (18)November 5-6(18-19)November 7 (20)Night of November8 (21)Lenin writes a message “To the Population” and“Reply to Questions from Peasants”; instructs thegovernment’s secretary to hand typewritten copiesof his “Reply” bearing his signature to peasantmessengers arriving at the Smolny.Lenin writes an appeal “From the Central Committeeof the Russian Social-Democratic LabourParty (Bolsheviks). To All Party Members andto All the Working Classes of Russia”, brandingKamenev, Zinoviev, Nogin, Rykov and Milyutinas deserters and traitors for having left the CentralCommittee and the Council of People’s Commissars.On behalf of the government Lenin orders theCommander-in-Chief, Dukhonin, to make an offerof an immediate ceasefire to all the belligerentcountries.Lenin has a direct-line conversation with GeneralDukhonin from the headquarters of the PetrogradMilitary District.Lenin arrives at the “Novaya Gollandia” radiostation and writes his “Wireless Message. To AllRegimental, Divisional, Corps, Army and OtherCommittees, to All Soldiers of the RevolutionaryArmy and Sailors of the Revolutionary Navy”.November 9 (22)Lenin speaks at an enlarged meeting of the PetrogradTrade Union Council on the nature of theOctober Revolution and the tasks of Soviet power.