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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume Ten contains works ·by V. I. Lenin written between November 1905 and June 6 (19), 1906, during the period when he was active in St. Petersburg upon his return from exile abroad.

The articles “The Reorganisation of the Party”, “The Armed Forces and the Revolution”, “The Proletariat and the Peasantry”, “The Dying Autocracy and New Organs of Popular Rule”, etc., which were published in Novaya Zhizn, a legal Bolshevik newspaper, define the tasks of the Party during the first Russian revolution.

The pamphlet The Victory of the Cadets and the Tasks of the Workers' Party and the articles written by Lenin after the defeat of the armed uprising in December 1905 sum up and generalise the experience of the first year of the revolution.

In his Revision of the Agrarian Programme of the Workers Party, Lenin sets forth and substantiates the Bol shevik agrarian programme for confiscation of the landed estates and for nationalisation of all the land.

Considerable space is taken up in this volume by works dealing with the Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Party: “A Tactical Platform for the Unity Congress of the RSDLP", speeches and statements made at the Congress, and the “Report on the Unity Congress of the RSDLP".

This volume also contains “Our Tasks and the Soviet of Workers' Deputies”, an article included in Lenin's Collected Works for the first time. In it Lenin appraises the Soviets as organs of insurrection and as the rudiments of a new, revolutionary power.

Other documents included in the present edition for the first time are various statements made by Lenin at the Fourth (Unity) Congress of the RSDLP: Statement in Support of Muratov's (Morozov's) Amendment Concerning a Parliamentary Social-Democratic Group; Resolution on the Accountability of the Credentials Committee to the Congress; Statement on the Necessity of the Congress Approving the Minutes; Written Statement at the Seventeenth Session of the Congress; Written Statement at the Twenty- First Session of the Congress; Speeches and Statements at the St. Petersburg City Conference of the RSDLP (February and March 1906). Published for the first time in the Collected Works are the articles “Resolution and Revolution” and “They Won't Even Bargain!", which appeared in Volna, a legal Bolshevik newspaper, in 1906. Both articles are directed against the Cadets.

 

1905

Our Tasks and the Soviet of Workers' Deputies A Letter to the Editor	17
The Reorganisation of the Party	29
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 November 14 (27), 1905	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 (1905)	71
The Socialist Party and Non-Party Revolutionism	75
Socialism and Religion	83
Resolution on the Agrarian Question Adopted by the “Majority” Conference at Tammerfors December 12-17 (26-30), 1905	88
The Stages, the Trend, and the Prospects of the Revolution	89

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 RSDLP (1) February 11 (24), 1906 Statements Concerning the Validity of the Credentials of the Delegations to the Conference from the Okruzhnoi and Vyborg District Organisations Resolution Against Martov's Proposal to Withdraw the Report of the St. Petersburg Committee Argumentation of Resolution Proposal On the St. Petersburg Committee Report Statement In Support of the Proposal Comment On the Resolution Concerning the Tactics of Boycott	120
The St. Petersburg City Conference of the RSDLP (2) Late February (early March) 1906 Statements In Defence of the Resolution on the Tactics of Boycott Objections to the Amendments to Points 3 and 6 of the Draft Resolution Statements During the Debate on Points 7 and 8 of the Draft Resolution Written Statement to the Conference Bureau Resolution on the Argumentation of the Boycott Tactics	123
To All Working Men and Women of the City of St. Petersburg and Vicinity	127
Resolution of the St. Petersburg Organisation of the RSDLP on the Tactics of Boycott	131
The Russian Revolution and the Tasks of the Proletariat	135
A Tactical Platform for the Unity Congress of the RSDLP Draft Resolutions The Present Stage of the Democratic Revolution Armed Uprising Fighting Guerrilla Operations The Provisional Revolutionary Government and Local Organs of Revolutionary Authority Soviets of Workers' Deputies Attitude Towards the Bourgeois Parties Attitude Towards the National Social-Democratic Parties The Trade Unions Attitude Towards the State Duma Principles of Party Organisation	147
Revision of the Agrarian Programme of the Workers' Party A Brief Historical Survey of the Evolution of Russian Social-Democratic Views on the Agrarian Question Four Trends Among Social-Democrats on the Question of the Agrarian Programme Comrade Maslov's Principal Mistake The Objects of Our Agrarian Programme Draft Agrarian Programme	165
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 What Was the Objective Significance of Our Participation in the Duma Elections? The Social and Political Significance of the First Elections What Is the Party of People's Freedom? The Role and Significance of a Cadet Duma A Sample of Cadet Smugness Digression. A Popular Talk with Cadet Publicists and Learned Professors Conclusion	199
The Unity Congress of the RSDLP April 10 (23)-April 25 (May 8), 1906 Speech in Reply to the Debate on the Agrarian Question Speech in Reply to the Debate on the Present Situation and the Class Tasks of the Proletariat Draft Resolution on the State Duma Submitted to the Unity Congress Co-Report on the Question of the Attitude Towards the State Duma Speech On the Question of Armed Uprising Statement In Support of Muratoy's (Morozoy's) Amendment Concerning a Parliamentary Social-Democratic Group Dissenting Opinion on the Composition of the Parliamentary Group of the RSDLP Resolution on the Accountability of the Credentials Committee to the Congress Statement On the Necessity of the Congress Approving the Minutes Written Statement at the Seventeenth Session of the Congress Written Statement at the Twenty-First Session of the Congress Written Statements at the Twenty-Sixth Session of the Congress	277
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 RSDLP A Letter to the St. Petersburg Workers The Composition of the Congress Election of the Bureau. The Congress Agenda The Agrarian Question Appraisal of the Revolutionary Situation and of the Class Tasks of the Proletariat Attitude Towards the State Duma Armed Uprising The End of the Congress The Congress Summed Up Appendix. Material for Appraising the Work of the Unity Congress of the RSDLP	317
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 (May 9, 1906)	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 Brief Report in Nevskaya Gazeta Brief Report in Volna	407
Resolution Adopted by the Public Meeting in Countess Panina's Palace, May 9 (22), 1906	409
The Peasant, or “Trudovik”, Group and the RSDLP	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 RSDLP 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 (May 31, 1906)	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 RSDLP on the Question of a Duma Ministry	514