V. I. Lenin

Wireless Message Of The Council
Of People’S Commissars

October 30 (November 12), 1917

Calling Everyone

The All-Russia Congress of Soviets has set up a new Soviet
Government. Kerensky’s government has been overthrown and
arrested. Kerensky has fled. All institutions are in the hands
of the Soviet Government. A revolt of officer cadets who had
been released on parole on October 25 broke out on October
29. The revolt was suppressed that same day. Kerensky and
Savinkov, together with the officer cadets and a part of the
Cossacks, have made their way by deceit to Tsarskoye Syelo. The
Soviet Government has mustered forces for the suppression of the
new Kornilov advance on Petrograd. The fleet, headed by the
armoured battleship Republic, has been summoned to the capital. Kerensky’s officer cadets and Cossacks are
wavering. Prisoners arriving from Kerensky’s camp assure us
that the Cossacks have been deceived and that if they come to
realise the true state of affairs they will refuse to shoot. The
Soviet Government is making every effort to avert bloodshed. If
bloodshed cannot be avoided and if Kerensky’s units do begin to shoot, the Soviet Government will not hesitate to
suppress the new Kerensky-Kornilov campaign ruthlessly.

We announce for your information that the Congress of Soviets
which has already dispersed, adopted two important decrees: (1)
on the immediate transfer of all the landed estates to the
peasant committees, and (2) on the proposal of a democratic
peace.

Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin), Chairman of the Soviet Government