if was the army's commander in chief he decided to send troops to st petersburg to disarm radical soldiers and save russia from the bolsheviks but korecki feared was in fact leading a rebellion against his government and dismissed him. korecki provided forty thousand rifles for the defense of st petersburg many went to the bolsheviks who were rehabilitated having been outlawed because of their involvement in the july days. railway workers dismantled train tracks to prevent new laws troops from reaching the city bolshevik agents persuaded many of his men to desert after three days it was all over. the bolsheviks keep their weapons. russia is gradually deaker risk of flying itself no more respect i'm leaving the no via she's a newspaper planning my play mystery bull. can eat your pineapples chew on your

grouse your last day is coming you borzois laos. this couplet has become my favorite saying. the revolutionary leaders argued their case to the masses. all power to the councils. the heritage and the palaces are being evacuated it suicide it's an expression of the panic that has seized our entire terrified society in the face of the specter of bolshevism. lenin was engaged in an argument with his own party the bolsheviks armed revolt yes

or no if so when and how. everyone is trying to organize a strong government but civil war is inevitable. it's terrible. it was clear by now that the bolshevik coup was imminent. lenin openly supports this program as if it were planned the papers hasten to inform us that the government is about to arrest him what an image. corinthian his feet will group of followers calling out to lenin and talk come here dad he's going to give you a spanking. on the

nineteenth of october not long before the coup a banquet proposed by his in aida give p.s. was held in the house of an influential businessman it was her last attempt to forge an alliance against the bolsheviks one guest addressed the assembled. the point of her speech was that we should do nothing and instead carry on doing what the intelligentsia has been doing all along what is she thinking i'm not blind i know that no intellectual manifesto can save us from these cannons. nonetheless our sense of honor obliges us to raise our voices before it is too late so that they know which side we're on when they start shooting the cannons at each other. then the coup began the bolsheviks took control of the railway stations the power plants main roads and bridges and they had the support of the people on the

street. the government sent in tanks their crews defected to the bolsheviks joining forces with them willingly. there's shooting on nevsky prospect a social cuckoo is imminent we must expect it at any time. a few thousand people gathered in front of the winter palace. lenin had the bolshevik seizure of power announced on posters although it had not yet taken place. on the day of the coup i was out and about in the afternoon i certainly hadn't expected it to happen today. i hadn't realised we were seeing

the last hours of our borzois world order. the. qur'an ski left in a private car in the early morning hours he slunk off. it wasn't yet ten and already shots could be heard louder and more intense by the minute. my heart seized up with the winter palace be no more in a few minutes. right next to it is the heritage with the most important artworks of russia more precious to me than anything else in the world.

the storming of the winter palace began. i never want to run the last day is coming aboard while the house eat your pineapples join your breath till the last day is coming from the wars lot of the house people i doubt will still in your white house the last day of come aboard the house there was very little resistance the provisional government was arrested. and all together bizarre landscape present events are as different from the revolution as october is from february and march as different as these dirty dark grey clouds are from the bright skies of spring. the present situation is this all the trustees are reveling in their triumph carefree

and self-satisfied. the all russian council met in small neat the headquarters of the revolution when the storming of the winter palace was announced several delegates left the room in protest amid loud booing from the bolsheviks urged by lenin the remaining council members decided to seize power. later in the soviet union these events would be called the start of the great october socialist revolution. the first measures taken were a decree on the ownership of land and a decree on making peace. according to the st petersburg newspapers from october the first the soldiers storming the winter palace sang a little song eat your pineapples and so on.

in the morning we discovered that immediately after these few cannon shots the siege of the palace ended and the members of the government were arrested. i was suddenly curious to find out what state the palace was really in. i had prepared myself for a scene of total devastation and smoking heaps of rubble but the palace thank god looked as impressive and unshakable as ever. both the square and the surrounding streets were completely deserted beneath the dreary gray sky everything looked like an apparition from the past. all the remaining newspapers three quarters had been banned including novi ashes and distanced themselves from the bolsheviks albeit to varying degrees.

doing away with the freedom of the press is a form of physical violence and unworthy of a democracy it's important not to forget that the unscrupulous as ours were capable of wiping out entire generations and that everyone who is intoxicated by the poison of power possesses such unscrupulousness i would like to stress that an experiment is being carried out on the russian proletariat the awful thing about it is that it will be enduring lee disappointed in the high ideals of socialism. to endorse it or not. that wasn't a question the other moscow futurist and i asked ourselves it was my revolution. i went to the small knee worked did what had to be done the time of assemblies had begun.