19 June 1917. Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

Non-fiction

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

Anatoliy Lunacharskiy

apt.17, 25/20, Lakhtinskaya, Petrograd, Russian Empire

I have been working hard at the Congress. On the third day there was a large, captivating meeting. Tsereteli spoke about general politics with dignity and intelligence, and he defended his impossible position as powerfully and systematically as could be imagined possible. Lenin spoke after him.

He spoke passionately, with great revolutionary fire, but too quickly, and he made an error that all his detractors later clung to: he said that “the first and most important measure of a genuinely revolutionary government would be the arrest of its country's 50 wealthiest factory owners.”

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Nicholas II

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Today Kerensky reviewed all the emergency infantry battalions. He did not call on us. During the day we chopped up in large pieces dried-up fir trees, very close to the place we were yesterday, and others on the Children's Island, The weather was ideal.

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The New York Times

Petrograd. Mr. Root interviews Russian journalists every morning, not they him, and the manner in which he eludes direct questions is a model for any young man studying the arts not less than the crafts of diplomacy.

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Nikolai Bukharin

Moscow, Russian Empire

The bourgeoisie is now striving to smother the revolution. The proletariat must continue it. The bourgeoisie is now striving to introduce anarchic disorganization and destruction into the administration of this country. The working class must organize it. The bourgeoisie wants to turn several more million living, thriving human beings into mountains of rotting flesh. See more

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Joseph Stalin

Petrograd, Russian Empire

Our duty is to organise a demonstration. At the sight of armed soldiers, the bourgeoisie will run and hide.

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Elizaveta Naryshkina

Tsarskoye Selo, Russian Empire

Kerensky reviewed the troops today. Fortunately, not in front of the Palace, but at the Sophia parade ground. One of our hospital assistants went along to have a look, and came back horrified at how badly the soldiers kept formation. He has to go back to the front, and wants a transfer to the artillery, as he thinks the situation in the infantry is terrible.

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