**All-Russian Political Strike** "The barometer shows a storm" (*"Frankfurter Zeitung"*{166})

*"Journal de Genève"*{167} – revolution *en plein*.[69]

**Growth of the railway strike**

{ "Alle Räder stehen still, wenn dein starker Arm es will".

{ "All the wheels will stop, if your mighty arm so wills it".

Open revolutionary assemblies: Moscow, Kharkov.

Witte Ministry.

[Negotiations with Cadets]

Demand for a Constituent Assembly.

Wreck the Duma?

Wrecked the Duma!!

From *Temps* 26. X.: Witte received a delegation of railway workers.

*Journal de Genève* 26. X.: 15,000-strong rally at the university in Petersburg. Call for armed uprising.

Demands of the railway workers: nation-wide Constituent Assembly – universal suffrage.

Moscow engineers (congress of the engineers' union) joined the strike (began on Wednesday){168}

Petersburg – Verzhbolovo

Petersburg – Vilna

Petersburg – Riga "     – Reval

Mitava – Windau

In Moscow—famine. No water. Everywhere: in schools, at factories, in the streets—revolutionary rallies. The police are passive.

Written October 13 (26), 1905

First published in 1926 in *Lenin Collection* V

Printed from the manuscript