on October 24,1917, one day before the successful storming of the Winter palace, the Bplshevik newspaper Rabochi putj, voicing the demands of the soviets and the working masses, carried an editorial entitled "What Do We Need? It read in part: "The present government of landlords and capitalists must be replaced by a new government of workers and peasants.
It is necessary that the present self-styled government, which has not been elected by the people and which is hence not responsible to the people, must be replaced by government which is recognised by the people, elected by representatives of workers, soldiers and peasants, and is responsible to these representative"