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Age: 43

Job: member of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party from 1902

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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

Viktor Chernov

Tauride Palace, Petrograd, Russian Republic

18.01.18

Having assembled not far from the Tavrichesky Palace, we are walking, to be there at the scheduled time of twelve o’clock, with the main group of about two hundred people. The square in front of the palace is cluttered with some cannons, machine guns, and “ammunition”—for an attack or for a siege? Only the side, narrow entrance is open: they let people in one by one there, after checking the tickets, and some are asked whether they have weapons on them.

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Viktor Chernov

mansion of von Derviz, 27, Galernaya str., Petrograd, Russian Republic

13.10.17

It has to be stated with bitterness: they waited. They waited for what everyone had predicted, everyone who had come into contact with the village and had understood them. We waited for the beginning of large-scale agrarian unrest.

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John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

03.10.17

In the Tsay-ee-kah three factions immediately appeared. The Bolsheviki demanded that the All-Russian Congress of Soviets be summoned, and that they take over the power. The “centre” Socialist Revolutionaries, led by Tchernov, joined with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, led by Kamkov and Spiridonova, the Mensheviki Internationalists under Martov, and the “centre” Mensheviki, represented by Bogdanov and Skobeliev, in demanding a purely Socialist Government. Tseretelli, Dan and Lieber, at the head of the right wing Mensheviki, and the right Socialist Revolutionaries under Avksentiev and Gotz, insisted that the propertied classes must be represented in the new Government. See more

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Viktor Chernov

mansion of von Derviz, 27, Galernaya str., Petrograd, Russian Republic

26.09.17

Those who consider the establishment of a socialist government to mean the establishment of socialism are gravely mistaken. Even if the government will consist exclusively of socialists, it should anyway be based on a definitive programme, worked out by the Democratic Conference; there can be no socialism until the gathering of the Constituent Assembly. See more

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Viktor Chernov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

15.08.17

Our villages thirst for the rule of law. The peasantry instinctively wants reliability, stability, and order for all. In the villages, there is a famine of legislation. We have given them no laws, so an entirely separate legal system is beginning to form. See more

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

06.08.17

The Germans are already in Kiev and in Pskov. I suspect that they will take Petrograd. Instead of acting and giving all the power to Kerensky and KornilovCommander in Chief of the Petrograd command - from 18 March 1917, they are exhausting their energy in conversations, while evil strengthens. See more

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Viktor Chernov

mansion of von Derviz, 27, Galernaya str., Petrograd, Russian Empire

03.06.17

As long ago as April it was established that the war was costing the state 54 million roubles every day, and that the deficit would reach 40 billion dollars by the end of the fiscal year. At the same time, we all knew that the system for levying direct taxes has long been in a state of complete paralysis, and that the country has, without prior arrangement, been practicing a silent conspiracy of non-payment of taxes and duties. See more

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Viktor Chernov

Tavrichesky Palace, rooms of the Provisional Committee, Petrograd, Russian Empire

16.05.17

“Either the revolution will swallow up the war, or the war will swallow up the revolution”. I fear that this really is the way in which history has posed the question. See more

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Age: 43

Job: member of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party from 1902

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