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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

09.01.18

Given the debt of the stock company of the Putilov factories to the treasury of the Russian Republic, the Council of People's Commissars decrees: the Russian Republic should assume ownership of the Putilov factories along with all properties of the stock company of the Putilov factories.

The People's Commissar of Trade and Industry will be overseeing the management of factories and business of the aforementioned stock company.

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Council of People's Commissars

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

04.01.18

Decree on the changing of clocks

By decree of the Coalition Government, a directive was issued to move all clocks one hour forward for the summer starting on the 14th of July. The present decree prescribes a return to the usual account of time.

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Council of People's Commissars

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

02.01.18

Given that there is still no quorum for the Constituent Assembly, even if the figure is broadened to include those deputies who have not presented their mandates for registration according to the established procedure; given that many Constituent Assembly members who arrived in Petrograd have since left for the provinces; See more

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Council of People's Commissars

A decree on the civil marriage

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Council of People's Commissars with Leon Trotsky

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

29.12.17

Stalin’s report on Orenburg, the Ural region and Turkestan. The possibility of cutting Siberia off from Russia. Orders for comrades Stalin and Kolegaev: 1) to hold talks with the Military Commissariat on the immediate fulfilment of the demands for military assistance and to monitor the execution of these demands; 2) having agreed on the necessity of dispatching money to Samara, to hold talks with the Military Commissariat and the manager of the State Bank on the size of the required sum and the details of its delivery.

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Council of People's Commissars

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

20.12.17

Dzerzhinsky's report on the organization and staff of a commission to combat sabotage. Name the commission the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission under the Council of People's Commissars to Combat Counterrevolution and Sabotage. Purpose of the commission: See more

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Council of People's Commissars

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

11.12.17

A decree (proposed by Lenin) authorising the arrest of “the most prominent members of the Central Committee of the party of the enemies of the people” and their trial before revolutionary tribunals:

“Members of the leading bodies of the Constitutional Democrat Party, as a party of the enemies of the people, are liable to arrest and trial by revolutionary tribunal. See more

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