V. I.

Lenin

Telephone Message to The Executive Commission of the Petrograd Committee and to All District Committees of the Bolshevik Party [1]

21(8).II.1918. 12.20 p. m.

In accordance with decisions of the Petrograd Soviet to be
passed this evening, we advise you, without losing an hour, to rally all
the workers in order to organise tens of thousands of workers and get all the bourgeoisie, everyone of them to a
man, under the control of these workers, to dig trenches outside the
city. This is the only hope for the revolution. The revolution is in
danger. The line of trenches will be marked out by the military. Prepare
the implements, most important of all organise and mobilise one and
all.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This telephone message, printed from Lenin’s manuscript, found its way
into the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
C.C. of the C.P.S.U. in 1948.