Proclaiming the New Socialist Government, November 1917 Comrades, the workers' and peasants' revolution, about the necessity of which the Bolsheviks have always
spoken, has been accomplished.
What is the significance of this workers' and peasants' revolution? Its significance is, first of all, that we shall
have a Soviet government, our own organ of power, in which the bourgeoisie will have no share
whatsoever. The oppressed masses will themselves create a power. The old state apparatus will be
shattered to its foundations and a new administrative apparatus set up in the form of the Soviet
organisations.
From now on, a new phase in the history of Russia begins, and this, the third Russian revolution, should in
the end lead to the victory of socialism.
Within Russia a huge section of the peasantry have said that they have played long enough with the
capitalists, and will now march with the workers. A single decree putting an end to landed proprietorship will
win us the confidence of the peasants. The peasants will understand that the salvation of the peasantry lies
only in an alliance with the workers. We shall institute genuine workers' control over production.
We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia.
Source: V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 26, Progress Publishers
2. Identify Lenin's purpose of the Russian Revolution based on this excerpt. 1 point