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Volume Six – January 1902-August 1903

Preface 13

1902

Material for the Preparation of the Programme of the R.S.D.L.P. 15

Notes on Plekhanov’s First Draft Programme 17

Draft Programme of the Russian Social-democratic Labour Party 25

Three Amendments to the Draft Programme 32

Notes on Plekhanov’s Second Draft Programme 35

Opinion on Plekhanov’s Second Draft 56

Remarks on the Committee’s Draft Programme 59

Additional Remarks on the Committee’s Draft Programme 72

Addition Concerning the Class Struggle 73

An Amendment to the Agrarian Section of the Programme 75

Signs of Bankruptcy 77

From the Economic Life of Russia 84

1. The Savings-banks 85

Report of the Iskra Editorial Board to the Meeting (Conference) of R.S.D.L.P. Committees 95

(N .B.) Rough Outline of Resolution 103

The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-democracy 105

• I. 107
• II. 109
• III. 115
• IV. 117
• V. 121
• VI. 124
• VII. 130
• VIII. 140
• IX. 143
• X. 145

A Letter to the Zemstvoists 149

On the Borba Group 158

A Letter to the Northern League 159

Comments on the Programme of the Northern League 159

Why the Social-democrats Must Declare a Determined and Relentless War on the Socialist Revolutionaries 170

Two Letters to I. I. Radchenko 174

• I. 174
• II. 180

Revolutionary Adventurism 184

• I. 184
• II. 194

A Letter to the Moscow Committee 206

Preface to the Second Edition of the Pamphlet, The Tasks of the Russian Social-democrats 209

The Draft of a New Law on Strikes 215

A Letter to the Editors of Yuzhny Rabochy 225

A Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks 229

Political Struggle and Political Chicanery 251

Concerning Demonstrations 260

Vulgar Socialism and Narodism as Resurrected by the Socialist-revolutionaries 261

On the Tasks of the Social-democratic Movement 269

The Basic Thesis Against the Socialist-revolutionaries 271

New Events and Old Questions 276

To Secondary School Students 282

On the Svoboda Group 283

Extract from an Article Against the Socialist-revolutionaries 285

Draft Appeal of the Russian Organising Committee to the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-democracy, the Union of Russian Social-democrats Abroad, and the Foreign Committee of the Bund 287

On the Subject of Reports by Committees and Groups of the R.S.D.L.P. to the General Party Congress 288

• I. The Working-Class Movement, its History and Present State 290
• II. History of the Local Socialist Circles, Appearance of the Social-Democrats, Struggle of Trends Within them 291
• III. Organisation of the Local Committee, Local Groups and Circles 292
• IV. Character, Content, and Scope of Local Work 293
• V. Attitude Towards Revolutionary (Especially Social-Democratic) Groups of Other Races and Nationalities 295
• VI. Print-Shops, Transport, and Arrangements for Secret Work 295
• VII. Contacts and Activity Among Sections of the Population Outside the Working Class 296
• VIII. State of the Non-Social-Democratic Revolutionary and Opposition Trends and Attitude Towards them 297

1903

Moscow Zubatovists in St. Petersburg 299

Announcement of the Formation of an organising Committee 305

Some Reflections on the Letter from “7 Ts. 6 F.” 310

Concerning the Statement of the Bund 317

On the Manifesto of the League of the Armenian Social-democrats 324

Does the Jewish Proletariat need an ‘Independent Political Party’? 328

Marxist Views on the Agrarian Question in Europe and in Russia 335

Programme of Lectures 339

Outline of Lecture One. General Theory 340

Domination of Capitalist Agriculture Rent 342

The Autocracy is Wavering 346

Mr. Struve Exposed by his Colleague 352

To the Rural Poor

An Explanation for the Peasants of what the Social-Democrats Want 359

• 1. The Struggle of the Urban Workers 363
• 2. What Do the Social-Democrats Want? 365
• 3. Riches and Poverty, Property-Owners and Workers in the Countryside 375
• 4. What Path Should the Middle Peasant Take? Should he Take the Side of the Property-Owners and the Rich, or the Side of the Workers and the Poor? 389
• 5. What Improvements Are the Social-Democrats Striving to Obtain for the Whole People and for the Workers? 396
• 6. What Improvements Are the Social-Democrats Striving to Obtain for all the Peasants? 406
• 7. The Class Struggle in the Countryside 421

The Programme of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party Proposed by the Newspaper Iskra in Conjunction with the Magazine Zarya 428

Les beaux esprits se rencontrent

(Which May Be Interpreted Roughly as: Birds of a Feather Flock Together) 431

Reply to Criticism of our Draft Programme 436

The National Question in our Programme 452

Outline of an Article Against the Socialist-revolutionaries 462

Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., July 17 (30) – August 10 (23), 1903 465

• 1. Draft Resolution on Demonstrations 467
• 2. Draft Resolution on the Place of the Bund in the Party 468
• 3. Draft Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Student Youth 469
• 4. Draft Resolution on Party Literature 470
• 5. Drafts of Minor Resolutions 471

The Economic Struggle 471

May Day 471

International Congress 471

Terrorism 472

Propaganda 472

Distribution of Forces 472

• 6. Draft Resolution on the Publication of a Periodical for Members of Religious Sects 473
• 7. Draft Rules of the R.S.D.L.P. 474
• 8. Draft Resolutions not Submitted to the Congress 477

Withdrawal of the Bund 477

Separate Groups 478

The Army 478

The Peasantry 478

• 9. First Speech on the Agenda of the Congress, July 18 (31) 480
• 10. Second speech on the Agenda of the Congress, July 18 (31) 481
• 11. Speech on the Actions of the Organising Committee, July 18 (31) 482
• 12. Speech on the Attendance of the Polish Social-democrats at the Congress, July 18 (31) 483
• 13. Speech on the Place of the Bund in the R.S.D.L.P., July 20 (August 2) 484
• 14. Speech on the Party Programme, July 22 (August 4) 487
• 15. Report on the Party Rules, July 29 (August 11) 490
• 16. First Speech in the Discussion on the Agrarian Programme, July 31 (August 13) 491
• 17. Second Speech in the Discussion on the Agrarian Programme, August 1 (14) 494
• 18. Third Speech in the Discussion on the Agrarian Programme, august 1 (14) 496
• 19. Fourth Speech in the Discussion on the Agrarian Programme, August 1 (14) 497
• 20. First Speech in the Discussion on the Party Rules, August. 2 (15) 498
• 21. Second Speech in the Discussion on the Party Rules, August 2 (15) 499
• 22. Speech at the Election of the Editorial Board of Iskra, August 7 (20) 503
• 23. Speech on the Attitude Towards the Student Youth, August 10 (23) 507

An Era of Reforms 508

The Latest Word in Bundist Nationalism 516

Martov’s Contradictions and Zigzags 520

Notes 521

The Life and Works of V.I. Lenin. Outstanding Dates 565

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume Seven – September 1903-December 1904

Preface 13

1903

Account of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. 15

Foiled! 35

Plan of Letters on Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth 41

The Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth. First Letter 43

Second Party Congress. Plan of Article 57

Maximum Brazenness and Minimum Logic 59

Draft of a Letter from the Central Committee and the Editorial Board of the Central Organ to the Members of the Opposition 66

Second Congress of the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-democracy Abroad, October 13-18 (26-31), 1901 69

l. Prefatory Remarks to the Report on the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., October 13 (26) 71

• I. 71
• II. 71
• III. 72
• IV. 72

2. Report on the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., October 14 (27) 73

3. Statement Concerning Martov’s Report, October 15 (28) 84

4. Speech on the Rules of the League, October 17(30) 85

An Unsubmitted Statement 86

Statement of Resignation from the Party Council and from the Editorial Board of the Central Organ 91

The Position of the Bund in the Party 92

The Narodnik-like Bourgeoisie and Distraught Narodism 103

To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P. 112

An Unissued Statement 113

Letter to Iskra 114

Why I Resigned from the Iskra Editorial Board, a Letter to the Editor, of ‘Iskra’ 118

Letter from the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P, to the Administration of the League Abroad, the Party Aid Groups, and to all Party Members Abroad 125

Note on the Position of the New Iskra 129

1904

Preface to the Pamphlet a Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks 131

Postscript to the Pamphlet a Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks 133

To the Party Membership 139

Session of the Council of the R.S.D.L.P., January 15-17 (28-30) 1904

1. Draft Resolution on Measures to Restore Peace in the Party, Moved on January 15 (28) 145

2. Dissenting Opinion Recorded by the Representatives of the Central Committee, January 17 (30) 148

3. Draft Resolution on Convening the Third Party Congress, January 17 (30) 152

4. Draft Resolutions Moved on January 17 (30) 153

• I. 153
• II. 153
• III. 153

5. Speeches on Measures to Restore Peace in the Party, January 15 (28) 154

• I. 154
• II. 155
• III. 157
• IV. 158
• V. 161

6. Speeches on Measures to Restore Peace in the Party, January 16 (29) 164

• VI. 164
• VII. 168
• VIII. 171
• IX. 175

7. Speeches on Convening the Third Party Congress, January 17 (30) 177

• I. 77
• II. 177
• III. 178

8. Speeches on the Publication of Party Literature, January 17(30) 179

• I. 179
• II. 182
• III. 184
• IV. 185

To the Party 186

Circumstances of Resignation from the Iskra Editorial Board 191

May Day 197

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back ( The Crisis in Our Party) 201

Preface 203

A. The Preparations for the Congress 207

B. Significance of the Various Groupings at the Congress 209

C. Beginning of the Congress. The Organising Committee Incident 212

D. Dissolution of the Yuzhny Rabochy Group 221

E. The Equality of Languages Incident 224

F. The Agrarian Programme 231

G. The Party Rules. Comrade Martov’s Draft 239

H. Discussion on Centralism Prior to the Split Among the Iskra-ists 248

I. Paragraph One of the Rules 253

J. Innocent Victims of a False Accusation of Opportunism 276

K. Continuation of the Debate on the Rules. Composition of the Council 286

L. Conclusion of the Debate on the Rules. Co-optation to the Central Bodies. Withdrawal of the Rabocheye Dyelo Delegates 292

M. The Elections. End of the Congress 306

N. General Picture of the Struggle at the Congress. The Revolutionary and Opportunist Wings of the Party 332

O. After the Congress. Two Methods of Struggle 347

P. Little Annoyances Should Not Stand in the Way of a Big Pleasure 366

Q. The New Iskra. Opportunism in Questions of Organisation 377

R. A Few Words on Dialectics. Two Revolutions 407

Appendix. The Incident of Comrade Guscv and Comrade Deutsch 414

Letter to the Members of the Central Committee Statement by Three Members of the Central Committee 424

To the Party 430

Session of the Council of the R.S.D.L.P., May 31 (June 13) and June 5 (18), 1904 433

1. Speeches Concerning an Inter-party Conference, May 31 (June 13) 435

• I. 435
• II. 437

2. Speeches on Co-optation to the Committees and the Right of the Central Committee to Appoint new Members to them, June 5 (18) 438

• I. 438
• II. 439
• III. 440

3. Speech on the Newspaper Rassvet, June 5 (18) 442

What we are Working for (To the Party) 443

To the Party 452

To Five Members of the Central Committee. For Russia 460

Letter to Central Committee Agents and Committee Members of the R.S.D.L.P. Siding with the Second Party Congress Majority 462

Letter to Glebov (V. A. Noskov) 464

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Reply by N. Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg 472

An Obliging Liberal 484

Preface to N. Shakhov’s Pamphlet the Fight for a Congress 488

Announcement of the Formation of a Bureau of Majority Committees Draft 489

The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra’s Plan 495

• I. 499
• II. 502
• III. 507
• IV. 513

Outline of a Talk on the Situation Within the Party. Outline of My Talk 519

A Letter to the Comrades ( With Reference to the Forthcoming Publication of the Organ of the Party Majority) 521

Statement and Documents on the Break of the Central Institutions with the Party 527

Appendix 534

Announcement of the Formation of an Organising Committee and the Convening of the Third Regular Congress of the Russian Social-democratic Labour Party 538

Notes 541

The Life and Work of V. I. Lenin. Chronology 575

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume Eight – January-July 1905

Preface 15

1905

The Autocracy and the Proletariat 17

Good Demonstrations of Proletarians and Poor Arguments of Certain Intellectuals 29

Time to Call a Halt! 35

Conferences of the Committees 40

The new Russian Loan 41

To A. A. Bogdanov 43

The Fall of Port Arthur 47

Fine Words Butter no Parsnips 56

A Letter to the Zurich Group of Bolsheviks 63

A Letter to Y. D. Stasova and to the Other Comrades in Prison in Moscow 66

Revolution in Russia 71

Working-class and Bourgeois Democracy 72

From Narodism to Marxism. Article One 83

The St. Petersburg Strike 90

Our Tartuffes 94

The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia 97

Revolutionary Days 101

• 1. What is Happening in Russia? 103
• 2. Father Gapon 105
• 3. The Plan of the St. Petersburg Battle 107
• 4. Supplement to the Article ‘The Plan of the Petersburg Battle’ 110
• 5. ‘Our Father the Tsar’ and the Barricades 111
• 6. The First Steps 114
• 7. The Eve of Bloody Sunday 118
• 8. The Number of Killed or Wounded 121
• 9. The Battles on the Barricades 122

The Tsarist Peace 124

A Brief Outline of the Split in the R.S.D.L.P. 125

The Letter to Greulich 126

Trepov in the Saddle 132

St. Petersburg after January 9 136

The First lessons 138

A Letter to A. A. Bogdanov and S. I. Gusev 143

Two Tactics 148

A Militant Agreement for the Uprising 158

Should we Organise the Revolution? 167

The Convening of the Third Party Congress. From the Editors 177

From the New-Iskra Camp 181

A Letter to the Organisations in Russia 182

General Plan of the Third Congress Decisions 184

Draft Resolutions for the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. 191

• 1. Resolution on the Disruptive Behaviour of the Mensheviks, or New-Iskrists 193
• 2. Resolution on Plekhanov’s Conduct During the Party Crisis 194
• 3. Resolution on the Theoretical Position of the New-lskrists 195
• 4. Resolution on the Relations Between Workers and Intellectuals in the Social-Democratic Party 196

Modification of the Clause in the Rules Concerning the Centres 197

Questionnaire. For the Third Congress of the Party 200

Preface to the Pamphlet Memorandum of Police Department Superintendent Lopukhin 202

Plan of a Lecture on the Commune 206

New Tasks and New Forces 211

Osvobozhdeniye-ists and New-Iskrists, Monarchists and Girondists 221

Evasions Without End 223

Whom are they Trying to Fool? 225

The Proletariat and the Bourgeois Democrats 228

The Proletariat and the Peasantry 231

Street Fighting (The Advice of a General of the Commune) 237

The First Step 239

On the History of the Party Programme 245

On Our Agrarian Programme (A Letter to the Third Congress) 246

What the Bonapartists are up to 252

A Revolution of the 1789 or the 1848 Type? 257

To the Party 260

The Second Step 262

European Capital and the Autocracy 267

Social-democracy and the Provisional Revolutionary Government 275

• I. 277
• II. 281
• III. 286
• IV. 288

The Revolutionary-democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry

Graft: a Franco-Russian Custom 304

The Guilty Blaming the Innocent 306

The Agrarian Programme of the Liberals 315

Marx on the American ‘General Redistribution’ 323

The Council is Caught out 330

Open Letter to Comrade Plekhanov, Chairman of the Council of the R.S.D.L.P. 335

Concerning the Third Congress 344

Plan for a May Day Leaflet 346

The First of May 348

The Constitutional Market-place 352

Fortnightly Reports of the Party Organisations 357

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., April 12 (25)-April 27 (May 10), 1905 359

• 1. Speech on the Validity of the Congress, April 13 (26) 363
• 2. Speech on the Qualifiedness of the Kazan and Kuban Committees April 14 (27) 365
• 3. Draft Resolution on the Attitude of the R.S.D.L.P. Towards the Armed Uprising 368
• 4. Draft Resolution on the Armed Uprising 369
• 5. Speech on the Question of the Armed Uprising, April 15 (28) 370
• 6. Speech on the Question of the Armed Uprising, April 16 (29) 371
• 7. Resolution on the Armed Uprising 373
• 8. Speech on the Attitude Towards the Government’s Tactics on the Eve of the Revolution, April 18 (May1) 375
• 9. Addendum to the Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Government’s Policy on the Eve and at the Moment of the Revolution 376
• 10. Draft Resolution on the Question of Open Political Action by the R.S.D.L.P. 377
• 11. Draft Resolution on the Participation of the Social-democrats in a Provisional Revolutionary Government 379
• 12. Addendum to the Resolution on the Participation of the Social-democrats in a Provisional Revolutionary GSovernment 381
• 13 Report on the Question of the Participation of the Social-democrats in a Provisional Revolutionary Government. April 18 (may 1) 382
• 14. Draft Resolution on the Provisional Revolutionary Government 396
• 15. Speech on the Amendments to the Resolution on the Provisional Revolutionary Government, April 19 (May 2) 398
• 16. Report on the Resolution on the Support of the Peasant Movement. April 19 (May 11) 400
• 17. Draft Resolution on the Support of the Peasant Movement 405
• 18. Speech on the Question of the Relations Between Workers and Intellectuals Within the Social-democratic Organisations. April 20 (May 3) 407
• 19. Draft Resolution on the Relations between Workers and Intellectuals within the Social-democratic Organisations 409
• 20. A remark during the Discussion of the Resolution on the Relations between Workers and Intellectuals within the Social-democratic Organisations, April 22 (May 6) 411
• 21. Speech on the Procedure of the Discussion of the Resolutions on the Relations between Workers and Intellectuals within the Social-democratic Organisations. April 22 (May 6) 412
• 22. Speech during the Discussion of the Party Rules, April 21 (May 4) 413
• 23. Speech on the Wording of Clause 9 of the Party Rules, April 21 (May 4) 415
• 24. Speech on an Agreement with the Socialist-revolutionaries. April 23 (May 6) 416
• 25. Speech on the Report on the Work of the Central Committee. April 25 (May 8) 422
• 26. Resolution on the Publication of the Congress Proceedings 423
• 27. Draft Resolution on the Events in the Caucasus 424

Political Sophisms 425

Report on the Third Congress of the Russian Social-democratic Labour Party 433

How the Congress was Constituted 440

The Third Congress 442

Victorious Revolution 450

On Confounding Politics with Pedagogics 452

A Letter to the International Socialist Bureau 456

The Advice of the Conservative Bourgeoisie 457

On the Provisional Revolutionary Government 461

Article One. Plekhanov’s Reference to History 463

Article Two. Only From Below, or From Above as Well as From Below? 474

Debacle 482

Revolutionary Struggle and Liberal Brokerage 486

To the Jewish Workers 495

A New Revolutionary Workers’ Association 499

The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat 511

The First Steps of Bourgeois Betrayal 519

‘Revolutionaries’ in Kid gloves 526

Open Letter to the Editorial Board of the Leipziger Volkszeitung 531

Sketch of a Provisional Revolutionary Government 534

The Struggle of the Proletariat and the Servility of the Bourgeoisie 537

A Third Step Back 544

To the International Socialist Bureau 555

Three Constitutions or Three Systems of Government 557

The Revolutionary Army and the Revolutionary Government 560

The Russian Tsar Seeks the Protection of the Turkish Sultan Against his People 569

The Bourgeoisie Bargains with the Autocracy, the Autocracy Bargains with the Bourgeoisie 574

Notes 577

The Life and Work of V. I. Lenin, Outstanding Dates. 599

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume Nine – June-November 1905

Preface 13

1905

TWO TACTICS OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY IN THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION 15

Preface 17

• 1. An Urgent Political Question 21
• 2. What Can We Learn From the Resolution of the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. on a Provisional Revolutionary Government? 24
• 3. What Is Meant by ‘the Revolution’s Decisive Victory Over Tsarism’? 32
• 4. The Abolition of the Monarchy. The Republic 38
• 5. How Should ‘[the Revolution Be Advanced’? 44
• 6. Whence is the Proletariat Threatened with the Danger of Finding Itself with its Hands Tied in the Struggle Against the Inconsistent Bourgeoisie? 48
• 7. The Tactics of ‘Eliminating the Conservatives from the Government’ 64
• 8. The Osvobozhdeniye and New-Iskra Trends 65
• 9. What Is Meant by Being a Party of Extreme Opposition in Time of Revolution? 74
• 10. ‘Revolutionary Communes’ and the Revolutionary Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry 77
• 11. A Cursory Comparison Between Several of the Resolutions of the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. and Those of the ‘Conference’ 88
• 12. Will the Sweep of the Democratic Revolution Be Diminished if the Bourgeoisie Recoils from it? 92
• 13. Conclusion. Dare We Win? 104

Epilogue. Once Again the Osvobozhdeniye Trend, Once Again the New-Iskra Trend 115

• I. Why Do Bourgeois Liberal Realists Praise Social-Democratic ‘Realists’? 115
• II. Comrade Martynov Again Gives ‘Profundity’ to the Question 122
• III. The Vulgar Bourgeois and the Marxist Views on Dictatorship 130

Concluding Paragraph to the Article ‘The Paris Commune and the Tasks of the Democratic Dictatorship’ 141

To the Secretariat of the International Socialist Bureau, Brussels 142

Revolution Teaches 146

Wrathful Impotence 156

Original Variant of the Preface to the pamphlet ‘Workers on the Split in the Party’ 161

Preface to the Pamphlet ‘Workers on the Split in the Party’ 163

While the Proletariat is doing the Fighting the Bourgeoisie is Stealing Towards Power 169

The Boycott of the Bulygin Duma and Insurrection 179

Note on a Resolution of the Conference of R.S.D.L.P. Organisations Abroad 188

Note on M, N. Pokrovsky’s Article ‘The Professional Intelligentsia and the Social-democrats’ 189

Reply from the Proletary Editorial Board to Questions put by Comrade ‘Worker’ 190

‘Oneness of the Tsar and the People, and of the People and the Tsar’ 191

The Black Hundreds and the Organisation of an Uprising 200

Editorial Epilogue to the Article ‘The Third Congress on Trial before the Caucasian Mensheviks’ 205

Are the Zemstvo ‘Liberals’ already Turning Back? 206

The Working Class and Revolution 207

Preface to the Third Edition of the Pamphlet the Tasks of the Russian Social-democrats 209

Note on P. Nikolayev’s Pamphlet ‘The Revolution in Russia 211

In the Wake of the Monarchist Bourgeoisie, or in the Van of the Revolutionary Proletariat and Peasantry? 212

A most lucid Exposition of a most Confused Plan 224

Keeping International Social-democracy Informed of our Party Affairs 227

Note to the Article ‘Russia’s Finances and the Revolution’ 229

Social-democracy’s Attitude Towards the Peasant Movement 230

What our Liberal Bourgeois Want, and what they Fear 240

The Theory of Spontaneous Generation 246

Letter to the International Socialist Bureau 252

Friends Meet 253

Argue about Tactics, but give Clear Slogans! 262

What is the Advice the Social-Democrats Are Giving the Proletariat with Reference to the State Duma? 263

Playing at Parliamentarianism 265

The Liberal Unions and Social-democracy 281

From the Defensive to the Offensive 283

On the Current Moment 286

From the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the Russian Social-democratic Labour Party 288

The Jena Congress of the German Social-democratic ‘Workers’ Party 290

No Falsehood! Our Strength Lies in Stating the truth! Letter to the Editorial Board 295

On the So-called Armenian Social-democratic Workers’ Organisation 300

The Zemstvo Congress 301

Socialism and the Peasantry 307

A Replete Bourgeoisie and a Craving Bourgeoisie 316

The Landlords on the Boycott of the Duma 323

On the Question of Party Unity 327

An Irate Reply 329

A New Menshevik Conference 330

Representation of the R.S.D.L.P. in the International Socialist Bureau 332

Talks with our Readers 335

Days of Bloodshed in Moscow 336

The Bourgeoisie Awakened from its Slumber. Subject for an Article 342

To the Combat Committee of the St. Petersburg Committee 344

The Political Strike and the Street Fighting in Moscow 347

The Latest in Iskra Tactics, or Mock Elections as a New Incentive to an Uprising 356

Note to M. Borisov’s Article ‘On the Trade Union Movement and the Tasks of Social-democracy’ 374

On the Death of Trubetskoi 375

The Lessons of the Moscow Events 376

‘The Struggle of the Proletariat’ 388

The Youth Abroad and the Russian Revolution 389

A Letter to the International Socialist Bureau 390

The All-Russia Political Strike 392

The First Results of the Political Alignment 396

The Hysterics of the Defeated 405

Revolutionary Riga’s Ultimatum 408

the Plans of a Buffoon-minister 410

The Aggravation of the Situation in Russia 411

Notes on ‘The British Labour Movement and the Trade Union Congress’ 413

An Equilibrium of Forces 414

A Social-democratic Sweetheart 416

On P. B. Axelrod’s Pamphlet the People’s Duma and a Workers’ Congress. Analysis of the Pamphlet 417

Tasks of Revolutionary Army Contingents 420

What the Liberals Expect of the Duma 425

The First Victory of the Revolution 427

The Latest News 435

Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman 436

Petty-bourgeois and Proletarian Socialism 438

The Denouement is at Hand 447

Insert to V. Kalinin’s Article ‘The Peasant Congress’ 455

Between Two Battles 457

Notes 467

The Life and Work of V. I. Lenin. Outstanding Dates. 493

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume Ten – November 1905-June 1906

Preface 15

1905

Our Tasks and the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. A Letter to the Editor 17

The Reorganisation of the Party 29

• I. 29
• II. 33
• III. 37

The Proletariat and the Peasantry 40

Party Organisation and Party Literature 44

Resolution of the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies on Measures for Counteracting the Lock-out Adopted on nNvember 14, (27), 1906 50

The Provocation that Failed 52

The Armed Forces and the Revolution 54

The Scales are Wavering 58

Learn from the Enemy 60

Revolutionary Office Routine and Revolutionary Action 62

The Dying Autocracy and New Organs of Popular Rule 66

Socialism and Anarchism 71

The Socialist Party and Non-Party revolutionism 75

• I. 75
• II. 78

Socialism and Religion 83

Resolution on the Agrarian Question Adopted by the ‘majority’ Conference at Tammerfors, December 12-17 (25-30) 1905 88

The Etages, the Trend, and the Prospects of the Revolution 91

1906

The Workers’ Party and its Tasks in the Present Situation 93

Should we Boycott the State Duma the ‘Platform of the Majority’ 97

The State Duma and Social-democratic Tactics 101

The Present Situation in Russia and the Tactics of the Workers’ Party 112

The St. Petersburg City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P., February 11 (2l), 1906 120

Statements Concerning the Validity of the Credentials of the Delegations to the Conference from the Okruzhnoi and Vyborg District Organisations 120

Resolution Against Martov’s Proposal to Withdraw the Report of the St. Petersburg Committee 121

Argumentation of Resolution 122

Proposal on the St. Petersburg Committee Report 122

Statement in Support of the Proposal 122

Comment on the Resolution Concerning the Tactics of Boycott 122

The St Petersburg City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P, (II). Late February (early March) 1906 123

Statements in Defence of the Resolution on the Tactics of Boycott 123

Objections to the Amendments to Points 3 and 6 of the Draft Resolution 124

Statements During the Debate on Points 7 and 8 of the Draft Resolution 125

Written Statement to the Conference Bureau 126

Resolution on the Argumentation of the Boycott Tactics 126

To all Working Men and Women of the City of St. Petersburg and Vicinity 127

Resolution of the St Petersburg Organisation of the R.S.D.L.P on the Tactics of Boycott 131

The Russian Revolution and the Tasks of the Proletariat 135

• I. 135
• II. 138
• III. 142

A Tactical Platform for the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Draft Resolutions for the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. 147

The Present Stage of the Democratic Revolution 150

Armed Uprising 151

Fighting Guerrilla Operations 153

The Provisional Revolutionary Government and Local Organs of Revolutionary Authority 154

Soviets of Workers’ Deputies 156

Attitude Towards the Bourgeois Parties 157

Attitude Towards the National Social-democratic Parties 159

The Trade Unions 160

Attitude Towards the State Duma 161

Principles of Party Organisation 163

Revision of the Agrarian Programme of the Workers’ Party 165

• I. A Brief Historical Survey of the Evolution of Russian Social-Democratic Views on the Agrarian Question 169
• II. Four Trends Among Social-Democrats on the Question of the Agrarian Programme 17 4
• III. Comrade Maslov’s Principal Mistake 184
• IV. The Objects of Our Agrarian Programme 189
• V. Dealt Agrarian Programme 194

Preface to the Russian Translation of K Kautsky’s Pamphlet ‘Social Democracy Wiped out!’ 196

The Victory of the Cadets and the Tasks of the Workers Party 199

• I. What Was the Objective Significance of Our Participation in the Duma Elections? 201
• II. The Social and Political Significance of the First Elections 210
• III. What Is the Party of People’s Freedom? 214
• IV. The Role and Significance of a Cadet Duma 222
• V. A Sample of Cadet Smugness 238

Digression. A Popular Talk with Cadet Publicists and Learned Professors 242

• VI. Conclusion 270

The Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. April 10 (23)April 25 ( May 8), 1906 277

• 1. Speech in Reply to the Debate on the Agrarian Question 279
• 2. Speech in Reply to the Debate on the Present Situation and the Class Tasks of the Proletariat 289
• 3. Draft Resolution on the State Duma Submitted to the Unity Congress 292
• 4. Co-report on the Question of the Attitude towards the State Duma 294
• 5. Speech on the Question of Armed Uprising 299
• 6. Statement in Support of Muratov’s (Morozov’s) Amendment Concerning a Parliamentary Social-democratic Group 302
• 7. Dissenting Opinion on the Composition of the Parliamentary Group of the R.S.D.L.P. 303

8. Resolution on the Accountability of the Credentials Committee to the Congress 305

• 9. Statement on the Necessity of the Congress Approving the Minutes 306
• 10. Written Statement at the Seventeenth Session of the Congress 307
• 11. Written Statement at the Twenty-first Session of the Congress 308
• 12. Written Statements at the Twenty-sixth Session of the Congress 309

An Appeal to the Party by Delegates to the Unity Congress who Belonged to the Former ‘Bolshevik’ Group 310

Report on the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. A Letter to the St. Petersburg Workers 317

• I. The Composition of the Congress 322
• II. Election of the Bureau. The Congress Agenda 326
• III. The Agrarian Question 328
• IV. Appraisal of the Revolutionary Situation and of the Class Tasks of the Proletariat 348
• V. Attitude Towards the State Duma 355
• VI. Armed Uprising 364
• VII. The End of the Congress 370
• VIII. The Congress Summed Up 376

Appendix. Material for Appraising the Work or the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. 382

The Fight for Freedom and the Fight for Power 383

A New Upswing 386

The Congress Summed up 392

The Duma and the People 396

Among Newspapers and Periodicals 400

The Bolshevik Resolution on the State Duma 401

The Workers’ Group in the State Duma 402

The Question of Organisation 406

Speech at a Public Meeting held in Countess Panina’s Palace, May 9 (22), 1906 407

• I. Brief Report in Nevskaya Gazeta 407
• II. Brief Report in Volna 408

Resolution Adopted by the Public Meeting in Countess Panina’s Palace, May 9 (22), 1906 409

The Peasant, or ‘Trudovik’, Group and the R.S.D.L.P 410

The Land Question in the Duma 414

Resolution and Revolution 418

Neither Land nor Freedom 421

The Social-democratic Election Victory in Tiflis 423

Government, Duma and People 426

The Cadets are Preventing the Duma from Appealing to the People 430

They won’t even Bargain! 432

The Manifesto of the Workers’ Deputies in the State Duma 434

The Land Question and the Fight for Freedom 436

The Sorry Goremykins, the Octobrists and the Cadets 440

Freedom to Criticise and Unity of Action 442

Bad Advice 444

Talk and Rumours about the Dissolution of the State Duma 450

Kautsky on the State Duma 452

Cadets, Trudoviks and the Workers’ Party 455

How Comrade Plekhanov Argues about Social-democratic Tactics 460

Resolution (II) of the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. on the Attitude Towards the State Duma 481

The Slogan of a Duma Ministry 483

The Present Political Situation 485

The Tactics of the Proletariat and the Tasks of the Moment 490

The German Social-democrats on the Cadets 494

Among Newspapers and Periodicals 499

Let the Workers Decide 500

‘Don’t Gaze up, Gaze down!’ 505

The Reaction is Taking to Arms 508

Resolution (III) of the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. on the Question of a Duma Ministry 514

Notes 517

The Life and Work of V. I. Lenin. Chronology 559

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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