![]() Through the Red Guards, paramilitary organizations of revolutionary workers, sailors and soldiers the Soviet government was able to storm the Winter Palace and officially abolish the Provisional Government. On November 7, the Congress of Soviets officially elected a coalition of Bolsheviks, Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks to govern. The Russian public was deeply upset with the continuation of Russia's involvement in World War I and the continued economic difficulties that it brought on. " Soviets", legislative bodies of workers and peasants were the de facto governments of Petrograd and many smaller cities. Lenin began the composition of an early draft of The State and Revolution while in exile in Switzerland in 1916, under the title "Marxism on the State". ![]() The State and Revolution (1917) is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the necessity of proletarian revolution, and the theoretic inadequacies of social democracy in achieving revolution to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. ![]()
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