"Under the Sign of Scorpion" by Juri - Gnostic Liberation Front

(Mikhail Heller and Alexander Nekrich, "Utopia in Power", London,
1986, p. 37.)
It is of course a fabrication that the leading Bolsheviks gathered on the
23rd of October (5th of November) in Nikolai Sukhanov's (Gimmel's) flat
and only then decided to organise the assault on the Winter Palace. Any
other Bolshevik leaders but Lenin and Trotsky would have said that armed
action was completely unnecessary, since they would gain power at the
Second Soviet Congress on the 25th October (7th of November) anyway.
This seems to have been a later invention since Trotsky had already
formed a military revolutionary committee on the 12th (25th) of October.
The power was transferred to this organ in secret on the 21 st of October
(3rd of November). (Heller and Nekrich, "Utopia in Power", London,
1986, p. 38.) All the available facts today suggest an organised plot and
not any kind of spontaneous action.
Lenin was not seen between the 2nd and 7th of November. He was not
needed. It was Trotsky who organised everything. Lenin disappeared from
Fofanova's flat in the late evenings. Only Stalin knew anything about
Lenin's mysterious disappearances. Lenin was not at Fofanova's on the
evening of the 24th of October (6th of November). Neither was he in the
Soviet building in the Smolny palace. This was confirmed in the book
"About Nadezhda Krupskaya", published in 1988 in Moscow. Nadezhda
had come from Smolny to Fofanova's flat to look for Lenin. But he was
not there. The historians Heller and Nekrich came to the same conclusion:
Lenin was not even in Smolny in the late evening of the 6th of November.
According to other sources, he turned up only on the 7th of November. He
had taken a tram to Smolny. Lenin said to Trotsky in German: "Es schwin-
delt!" (I'm dizzy!). He was in control!
Lenin immediately began threatening with executions if he was not
completely obeyed. But it was still Trotsky who led the show.
The Soviet Congress, which had taken up residence in the Smolny
Girls' School, was led by Fiodor Dan (actually Gurvich, 1871-1947), one
of the Menshevik leaders. The conspirators announced already at 10:40 in
the morning of the 7th of November that the Provisional Government had
been overthrown and the power seized by the Soviets. The Soviet Congress
accepted the motion to form a new government - the Council of People's
Commissaries (Sovnarkom). The suggestion received 390 votes out of
650. The government was to be exclusively composed of Bolsheviks with
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