The collection is devoted to the historiography of the Petrograd armed uprising. The articles consider such issues as Lenin's plan for organizing an armed uprising and its coverage in modern literature, Lenin's letters about the uprising, V.I. Lenin and the party - the organizers and leaders of the October uprising, the avant-garde role of the workers of Petrograd, the political struggle in the Petrograd Soviet in the fall of 1917, the possibility of peaceful development of the revolution, and many others.