V. I.

Lenin

Fürstenberg, Boulevard-Hotel, Christiania

Cable to Pravda , appending return address. Have just read extracts from the Central Committee
manifesto. [1]
Very best wishes! Long live the proletarian militia paving
the way for peace and socialism!

Ulyanov

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Notes:
[1]
The Manifesto of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party to All the Citizens of Russia issued by the R.S.D.L.P. C.C. and
published in Supplement to Izvestia (News) of the Petrograd
Soviet No. 1, February 28 (March 13), 1917. Lenin read extracts
from the Manifesto carried by Frankfurter Zeitung No. 80, March
22, 1917, under the title, “Das Manifest der Sozialrevolutionäre”
(Manifesto of Revolutionary Socialists). It demanded a democratic
republic, an 8-hour working day, confiscation of landed estates in
favour of the peasants, confiscation of grain stocks, and—the most
important thing—an end to the plunderous war. On the significance of the Manifesto, see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 320 and
357.