A handwritten note signed by revolutionary Vladimir Lenin

Handwritten note with an autograph

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, a major Marxist theorist, a Soviet politician and statesman, the creator of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Bolsheviks), the main organizer and leader of the October Revolution of 1917, the first chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the creator of the first socialist state in world history.

Text:
"V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Petrograd on November 1, 1917"

On this and the two following days, the newspaper Rabochy Put No. 40, 41, 42 prints a "Letter to Comrades" written by Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich examines the arguments of Kamenev and Zinoviev, who opposed the armed uprising. Also, in response to an article published on October 31 by Kamenev and Zinoviev in the newspaper Novaya Zhizn, opposing the secret decision on an armed uprising, Lenin writes two more letters. The first is a "Letter to the members of the Bolshevik Party." The second is a "Letter to the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b)", in which there are also such lines: "... It is not easy for me to write this about former close comrades, but I would consider hesitation a crime here, because otherwise the revolutionary party, which does not punish prominent strikebreakers, died...".