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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume 11 contains works written by V. I. Lenin in the period from June 1906 to January 1907. The majority of them are devoted to questions connected with the activities of the Social-Democratic Group in the First State Duma, the dissolution of the Duma and the beginning of the election campaign for the Second Duma.

The articles “Lessons of the Moscow Uprising”, “Hands Off!" and “Guerrilla Warfare” are devoted to problems of the organisation and tactics of an armed uprising.

In the articles “The Declaration of Our Group in the Duma”, “Who Is for Alliances with the Cadets?", “Yes-Men of the Cadets”, “The Political Crisis and the Bankruptcy of Opportunist Tactics”, “The Dissolution of the Duma and the Tasks of the Proletariat”, Lenin exposes the Menshevik tactics of support for a Cadet Duma and of the slogan of a Duma Cabinet composed of Cadets, gives a political appraisal of the dissolution of the First Duma and formulates the tasks of the Party in this period.

The writings “The Social-Democrats and Electoral Agreements”, “A Dissenting Opinion”, recorded a the November All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP, “Draf Election Address”, “Blocs with the Cadets”, “The Social-Democrats and the Duma Elections”, "'When You Hear the Judgement of a Fool'.... (From the Notes of a Social-Democratic Publicist)", are devoted to questions concerning the election campaign for the Second Duma.

The articles “An Attempt at a Classification of the Political Parties of Russia”, “Socialist-Revolutionary Mensheviks” and “Philistinism in Revolutionary Circles” are devoted to a class analysis of the Russian political parties.

This edition of Lenin's Collected Works includes for the first time the leaflet “Whom to Elect to the State Duma”, the note on the “Union of the Bund with the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party” and the article “The Working-Class Party's Tasks and the Peasantry”, which expounds the Bolsheviks' main slogan in the election campaign, for complete independence of the class policy of the proletariat and the impermissibility of blocs with the Cadets.

 

1906

On the Eve	15
Wavering Above, Determination Below	17
Unity!	20
The Duma and the People	24
The Fight for Power and the “Fight” for Sops	27
The Declaration of Our Group in the Duma	32
“What Thou Doest, Do Quickly”	38
Useful Polemics	40
Famine Relief and the Tactics of the Duma	43
Negotiations About the Cabinet	48
Among Newspapers and Periodicals (June 23, 1906)	50
Who Is for Alliances With the Cadets?	53
The Cadet Duma Grants Money to the Pogrom-Mongers' Government	60
Yes-Men of the Cadets	64
Once Again About the Duma Cabinet	69
Among Newspapers and Periodicals (June 29, 1906)	74
The Unsound Arguments of the “Non-Party” Boycotters	77
The Bourgeoisie's Censures and the Proletariat's Call for Action	83
The Army and the People	85
Among Newspapers and Periodicals (July 2, 1906)	88
Organisation of the Masses and Choice of the Moment for Struggle	90
Among Newspapers and Periodicals (July 4, 1906)	94
A Bold Assault and a Timid Defence	96
The Parties in the Duma and the People	101
Conspiracies of Reaction and Threats of the Pogrom-Mongers	105
The Dissolution of the Duma and the Tasks of the Proletariat	109
Dispatch of a Delegation to Sveaborg Resolution of the Executive Commission of the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP	132
Before the Storm	133
The Boycott	141
The Political Crisis and the Bankruptcy of Opportunist Tactics	150
The Events of the Day	167
A “Labour Congress”	170
Lessons of the Moscow Uprising	171
Vacillating Tactics	179
The Government's Policy and the Coming Struggle	184
Hands Off!	189
The Guerrilla Action of the Polish Socialist Party	194
Union of the Bund with the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party	195
Socialist-Revolutionary Mensheviks	197
A New Coup D'État in Preparation	207
Guerrilla Warfare	213
The Question of Guerrilla Warfare	224
An Attempt at a Classification of the Political Parties of Russia	225
Notes on Sotsial-Demokrat, No. 1	232
The Russian Radical is Wise After the Event	236
The Results of the Cadet Congress	241
Philistinism in Revolutionary Circles	246
Martov's and Cherevanin's Pronouncements in the Bourgeois Press Lies Spread by L. Martov Through the Columns of the Bourgeois Press Martov and Cherevanin Social-Democrats and Bourgeois Newspapers	257
On Convening an Extraordinary Party Congress	264
How History is Written...	267
Postscript to the Article: “The Social-Democrats and the Election Campaign”	271
The Social-Democrats and Electoral Agreements	275
A Dissenting Opinion Recorded at the All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party by the Social-Democratic Delegates from Poland, The Lettish Territory, St. Petersburg, Moscow, The Central Industrial Region and The Volga Area	299
Draft Election Address	302
Blocs With the Cadets	307
Party Discipline and the Fight Against the Pro-Cadet Social-Democrats	320
How the Armavir Social-Democrats are Conducting Their Election Campaign	324
Whom to Elect to the State Duma What Are the Three Chief Parties? Whose Interests Do the Three Chief Parties Defend? What Do the Three Chief Parties Strive For? What Kind of Freedom Do the Three Chief Parties Wan to Give the People? How Do the Three Chief Parties Regard the Peasants' Demand for Land? What Can the Three Chief Parties Achieve if Their Whole Struggle is Successful? Social-Democrats and the Trudovik Parties Which Parties Claim to Defend the Interests of the Working Class and All Working People? Whose Interests Do These Parties Actually Defend? How Steadfast Are These Parties in the Grea World-wide Struggle of Labour Against Capital What Can These Parties Achieve by Completely Fulfilling Their Ultimate Aims? What Kind of Freedom for the People Are These Parties Trying to Achieve in the Presen Revolution? What Is the Attitude of These Parties to the Peasants' Demand for Land?	326
The New Senate Interpretation	332
The Crisis of Menshevism	341
The Proletariat and its Ally in the Russian Revolution	365
Concerning an Article Published in the Organ of the Bund	376
The Government's Falsification of the Duma and the Tasks of the Social-Democrats	383
The Political Situation and the Tasks of the Working Class	389
The Working-Class Party's Tasks and the Peasantry	396
Preface to the Russian Translation of W. Liebknecht's Pamphlet: No Compromises, No Electoral Agreements	401
Preface to the Russian Translation of K. Kautsky's Pamphlet: The Driving Forces and Prospects of the Russian Revolution	408
The Attitude of the Bourgeois Parties and of the Workers' Party to the Duma Elections	414

1907

Plekhanov and Vasilyev	419
The Workers' Party Election Campaign in St. Petersburg	426
The Social-Democrats and the Duma Elections The Social-Democrats and the Elections in St. Petersburg I. The Conditions Under Which the Social-Democratic Conference Was Convened, and Its Composition II. The Question of Dividing the Conference III. What Is the Significance of the Menshevik Walk-out at the Conference? IV. The Political Parties and the Forthcoming Elections in St. Petersburg Postscript	431
“When You Hear the Judgement of a Fool... .” From the Notes of a Social-Democratic Publicist	456