31 October 1917. Lev Kamenev with Grigory Zinoviev

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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

Lev Kamenev with Grigory Zinoviev

Petrograd, Russian Republic

In view of the intensified discussion about the question of an armed action, Comrade Zinoviev and I have written to our main party organizations in Petrograd, Moscow and Finland, emphatically opposing the idea that our party should engage in any kind of armed action in the immediate future.

I have to say that I am unaware of any party decision to undertake an armed action of any sort on any given day.

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