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. . . We can be proud and we are proud that we have the good fortune to begin [italics] building a Soviet state, to begin [italics] this new era in world history . . . (Lenin)\r\nAll Power to the Soviets! \r\nPeace for the People!\r\nTo workers, soldiers and peasants\r\nDecree on Peace \r\nDecree on Land\r\nThe Council of People's Commissars \r\nVladimir Ilyich Lenin stood at the head of the Bolshevik Party, which raised the working class and the working people of Russia to revolutionary feats. His theoretical thought, his moral example and the fruits of his titanic activities will live for centuries. \r\nThe Great October Socialist Revolution: \r\n-created a new type of state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and a new type of democracy, democracy for the workers\r\n-put an end to the private ownership of the tools and means of production, replaced the economic element with a scientifically planned economy\r\n-destroyed the exploitation of man by man \r\n-carried out the nationalization of the land and gave it to the peasants\r\n-liquidated national oppression and established equality and brotherly friendship among nations\r\n-began a new period in world history- the period of the transition from capitalism to socialism and communism \r\n-identified ways to transform society according to socialist principles \r\n-marked the beginning of the general crisis of capitalism \r\n-created a new environment for the development of the international workers' movement\r\n-marked the beginning of the contemporary international communist movement\r\n-marked the beginning of the crisis of the colonial system of imperialism\r\n\r\nLR: 2 [originally part of a series]\r\nLC: "Plakat" Publisher, Moscow, 1987