30 November 1917. Pitirim Sorokin

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

Pitirim Sorokin

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Preliminary results of the Constituent Assembly elections are out. The Bolsheviks lost. Along with the left-wing Socialist-Revolutionaries, they are far behind the right-wing SRs, who got considerably more seats in the Assembly.

I received 90% of votes in the Vologodsky district. We celebrated with an extravagant feast: we all had a piece of bread, half a sausage, tinned peaches and had tea with sugar.

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is attending the meeting of the Temporary Committee of the Art Community Union

We need to welcome the new authorities and get in touch with them.

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Petr Polovtsov

Vladikavkaz, Russian Republic

The breakdown is getting worse.

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Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna (the Younger)

Moscow, Russian Republic

One evening at the very beginning of the Bolshevist rule, my husband and I decided to go to the ballet. I had never before been in the Imperial Theatres otherwise than through a private entrance and in the imperial box, and I found it interesting to view the house from orchestra seats, as a private individual. See more

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John Reed

Petrograd, Russian Republic

Toward the end of November occurred the “wine-pogroms”- looting of the wine-cellars - beginning with the plundering of the Winter Palace vaults. For days there were drunken soldiers on the streets…. In all this was evident the hand of the counter-revolutionists, who distributed among the regiments plans showing the location of the stores of liquor.

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David Lloyd George

Inter-Allied Conference in Paris, France

The Allies should release Russia from the engagement entered into in the Pact of London not to make a separate peace, and that they should tell the Russian people that, realising the extent to which they are worn by war, and the effects of the disorganisation resulting from a great revolution, they would leave them to decide for themselves whether to obtain peace on Germany’s terms, or fight on with their Allies who were determined not to lay down their arms until they had obtained guarantees for the world’s peace.

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Woodrow Wilson

Buffalo, New York, United States

It is amazing to me that any group of persons should be so ill-informed as to suppose, as some groups in Russia apparently suppose, that any reforms planned in the interest of the people can line in the presence of a Germany powerful enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue or force. Anybody of free men that compounds with the present German Government is compounding for its own destruction.

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Isa Kremer

Isa Kremer's concert. She will be performing new songs and some of public's favorites after a show of Verdi's "Rigoletto".

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