The Revolution has Triumphed
Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, Proclamation. November 7, 1917
Issued in Petrograd on the day the Bolsheviks moved against the Provisional Government, this Military Revolutionary Committee proclamation listed strategic nodes—rail stations, communications, the State Bank—said to be secured, and framed government forces' collapse as a fait accompli. Its closing lines declared authority vested in the Revolutionary Committee, projecting the seizure as orderly and popularly sanctioned.
Original Source: Novoe vremia, No. 14907, 8 November 1917, p. 2.
All railroad stations and the telephone, post, and telegraph offices are occupied. The telephones of the Winter Palace and the Staff Headquarters [Stavka] are disconnected. The State Bank is in our hands. The Winter Palace and the Staff have surrendered. The shock troops are dispersed, the cadets paralyzed. The armored cars have sided with the Revolutionary Committee. The Cossacks refused to obey the government. The Provisional Government is deposed. Power is in the hands of the Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies.
Source: James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, eds., Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1918; Documents and Materials (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1934), p. 100.