Vladimir Milyutin

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Age: 33

Views: Bolshevik Interests: economics

Job: member of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party

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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

Vladimir Milyutin

Smolny Institute, Petrograd, Russian Republic

07.11.17

And then a question arose: "What should we call the new government and its members?". "The Provisional government" seemed to be a played out term, and the word "provisional" didn't correspond with our ambitions. Calling the Cabinet members "ministers" seemed even more bureaucratically dull. And then Trotsky found a word that everyone immediately agreed on - "people’s commissars."

"Yes, it sounds great!" said comrade Lenin. "It feels revolutionary."

#Revolution. Online

Age: 33

Views: Bolshevik Job: member of the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party Interests: economics