An article by Leon Trotsky about the events that preceded the coup. “If the Bolshevik majority Congress of Soviets,” I said, “does not take power, then Bolshevism will simply render itself expendable. Then, in all likelihood, the Constituent Assembly will not be convened. By convening, after everything that has happened, the Congress of Soviets on October 25, with our majority secured in advance, we thereby publicly undertake to take power no later than October 25.”