"No support for the Provisional Government; the utter falsity of all its promises should be made clear. The specific feature of the present situation in Russia is that the country is passing from the first stage of the revolution — which, owing to the insufficient class-consciousness and organisation of the proletariat, placed power in the hands of the bourgeoisie — to its second stage, which must place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poorest sections of the peasants."

Vladimir Lenin, The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April Theses), delivered to the Petrograd Soviet and published in Pravda, 4 April 1917.