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Décret sur la formation du gouvernement ouvrier et paysan / Decree on the formation of the Workers' and Peasants' Government
IIe Congrès des soviets de Russie / Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets — 8 November 1917 (26 October, Julian calendar)
The text naming the first Bolshevik government: Lenin as chairman, then Rykov, Milyutin, Shlyapnikov, the War committee (Antonov-Ovseenko, Krylenko, Dybenko), Nogin, Lunacharsky, Skvortsov-Stepanov, Trotsky, Lomov, Teodorovich, Glebov-Avilov and Stalin; the Railways post is left vacant. Of these fifteen men, only one, Trotsky (born Lev Bronstein), was of Jewish origin.
- Author
- IIe Congrès des soviets de Russie / Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets
- Date
- 8 November 1917 (26 October, Julian calendar)
- Nature
- Primary source
- Document type
- Official decree
- Original language
- Russian
- Edition or translation
- Vtoroi vserossiiskii s"ezd Sovetov… sbornik dokumentov (Moscow, 1957), pp. 79–80; English translation: Decrees of the Soviet Government, vol. I (1957), pp. 20–21, reproduced by the Seventeen Moments in Soviet History project.
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