
VI Lenin
The Great ‘Marxist-Leninist’ Theoreticians
VI Lenin – Collected Works – Volumes 6 – 10
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Volume Six – January 1902-August 1903

First page of Lenin’s Manuscript – Draft Party Programme
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

Cover of original edition of ‘One Step Forward, Two Steps Back’ 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

Lenin’s Manuscript for ‘New Tasks and New Forces’ – 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

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
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

The Agrarian Programme of the Workers’ Party
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