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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume Twelve contains Lenin's writings for the period January-June 1907.

A number of the works included in this volume deal with the revolutionary tactics of the RSDLP at the time of the Second State Duma election campaign—the defence of the Left bloc and the struggle against the Menshevik policy of collaboration with the Constitutional-Democrats (the Cadets). Among these writings are: “The Social-Democratic Election Campaign in St. Petersburg”, “How To Vote in the St. Petersburg Elections (Who Benefits from the Fables About the Black-Hundred Danger?)", “The Second Duma and the Second Revolutionary Wave”, “On the Tactics of Opportunism”, “The Bolsheviks and the Petty Bourgeoisie”, 'The Elections to the Duma and the Tactics of the Russian Social-Democrats”, “The Imminent Dissolution of the Duma and Questions of Tactics”, and others.

There are also documents and articles by Lenin on preparations for the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP and the reports and speeches he made at the Congress—"Draft Resolutions for the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP", the articles “The Platform of Revolutionary Social-Democracy”, “Report to the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP on the St. Petersburg Split and the Institution of the Party Tribunal Ensuing Therefrom”, “Speech on the Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties”, and other speeches.

Lenin's “Report to the Conference of the St. Petersburg Organisation on the Question of the Duma Campaign and Duma Tactics”, and the articles “What the Splitters Have To Say About the Coming Split”, “Reorganisation and the End of the Split in St. Petersburg”, provide a picture of his struggle for an ideological consolidation of the St. Peters burg organisation of the RSDLP on Bolshevik principles.

Lenin's “Preface to the Russian Translation of Karl Marx's Letters to Dr. Kugelmann” and his “Preface to the Russian Translation of Letters by Johannes Becker, Joseph Dietzgen, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, and Others to Fried- rich Sorge and Others”, show the theoretical and political significance of the Marx and Engels correspondence, part of which was first published in a Russian translation in 1907.

This volume also contains two of Lenin's articles on the agrarian question—"Draft for a Speech on the Agrarian Question in the Second State Duma” and “The Agrarian Question and the Forces of the Revolution”.

The articles “On the Report of the Moscow District of St. Petersburg Concerning the Elections to the Second Duma”, “A Note on the Resolution of the Estonian Social- Democrats”, “The First Important Step”, to be found in this volume, are included in V. I. Lenin's Collected Works for the first time. In the last-named article Lenin criticises the opportunist behaviour of the Menshevik deputies to the Second Duma.

 

1907

The Social-Democratic Election Campaign in St. Petersburg	15
Descending Rung by Rung	24
The Protest of the Thirty-One Mensheviks	29
The St. Petersburg Elections and the Hypocrisy of the Thirty-One Mensheviks	33
How to Vote in the St. Petersburg Elections (January 25) Is There a Danger of the Black Hundreds Winning the St. Petersburg Elections?	45
The St. Petersburg Elections and the Crisis of Opportunism	57
The Elections in the Worker Curia in St. Petersburg	62
The Struggle Between S.D.'s and S.R.'s in the Elections in the Worker Curia in St. Petersburg	70
How to Vote in the St. Petersburg Elections (February 4) Who Benefits from the Fables About the Black-Hundred Danger?	75
The Moscow Elections—Preliminary Results	81
A Political Lidvaliad	83
The Results of the Elections in the Worker Curia in St. Petersburg	86
On the Report of the Moscow District of St. Petersburg Concerning the Elections to the Second Duma	93
Some Figures on the Elections in the Worker Curia in South Russia	95
The Significance of the St. Petersburg Elections	98
Preface to the Russian Translation of Karl Marx’s Letters to Dr. Kugelmann	104
The Second Duma and the Second Revolutionary Wave	113
The Election Results in St. Petersburg	119
Report to the Conference of the St. Petersburg Organisation on the Question of the Duma Campaign and Duma Tactics Brief Newspaper Report Concluding Speech	127
Draft Resolutions for the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP The Present Stage in the Democratic Revolution The Attitude to the Bourgeois Parties The Class Tasks of the Proletariat at the Present Stage of the Democratic Revolution The Tactics of the Social-Democrats in the State Duma The Intensification of Mass Destitution and of the Economic Struggle Non-Party Workers' Organisations and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Trend Among the Proletariat	133
Tactics of the RSDLP in the Election Campaign Interview Granted to a Special Correspondent of “L'Humanite'? on February 17 (March 2), 1907	145
The Opening of the Second State Duma	152
The Second Duma and the Tasks of the Proletariat	156
The First Important Step	161
Petty-Bourgeois Tactics	165
What the Splitters Have to Say About the Coming Split	170
On the Tactics of Opportunism	173
The Bolsheviks and the Petty Bourgeoisie	179
The Imminent Dissolution of the Duma and Questions of Tactics	184
Cadets and Trudoviks	189
Apropos of Stolypin’s Declaration Draft Manifesto.	193
The Elections to the Duma and the Tactics of the Russian Social-Democrats	196
The Platform of Revolutionary Social-Democracy	208
How Not to Write Resolutions Instead of an Afterword	219
A Note on the Resolution of the Estonian Social-Democrats	243
The Terms of the Deal	244
The Menshevik Tactical Platform	249
Draft for a Speech on the Agrarian Question in the Second State Duma	265
Fine Words—Foul Deeds	300
The Duma and the Approval of the Budget	306
The Cuckoo Praises the Rooster	312
Intellectualist Warriors Against Domination by the Intelligentsia	316
Angry Embarrassment The Question of the Labour Congress	320
The Agrarian Question and the Forces of the Revolution	333
An Anaemic Duma or An Anaemic Petty Bourgeoisie	337
Banality Triumphant, or SR's Ape the Cadets	341
The Social-Democratic Group and April 3 in the Duma	345
The Strength and Weakness of the Russian Revolution	349
Preface to the Russian Translation of Letters by Johannes Becker, Joseph Dietzgen, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, and Others to Friedrich Sorge and Others How the Classics Estimated Intellectualist Opportunism in Social-Democracy	359
The Duma and the Russian Liberals	379
Franz Mehring on the Second Duma German Liberalism and the Russian Duma	383
Larin and Khrustalev	390
Reorganisation and the End of the Split in St. Petersburg	395
On the Question of a Nation-Wide Revolution	404
Apropos of the Minutes of the November Military and Combat Conference of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party	409
Report to the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP on the St. Petersburg Split and the Institution of the Party Tribunal Ensuing Therefrom I. Speech for the Defence (or for the Prosecution of the Menshevik Section of the Central Committee) Delivered at the Party Tribunal A Brief Summary of the Real History of the St. Petersburg Split	419
Fifth Congress of the RSDLP, 1907 (1) April 30-May 19 (May 13-June 1), 1907 Speech During the Discussion on the Congress Agenda, May 2 (15) Speech on the Report on the Activities of the Central Committee, May 4 (17) Speech on the Report on the Activities of the Duma Group, May 8 (21) Statement of Fact, May 10 (23) Statement of May 11 (24) Speech on the Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties, May 12 (26) Concluding Remarks on the Report on the Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties, May 14 (27) Speech on the Attitude to the Polish Draft Resolution on Bourgeois Parties, May 15 (28) Objections to Trotsky's Amendments to the Bolshevik Resolution on the Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties, Adopted by the Congress, May 15-16 (28-29) Objections to Martov's Amendments to the Bolshevik Resolution on the Attitude to Bourgeois Parties, May 16 (29) Objections to Martynov's Amendments to the Resolution on the Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties, May 16 (29) Report of the Commission Formed to Draft a Resolution on the State Duma, May 15 (31) Remarks During the Discussion on the Re-Voting On Those Elected to the CC, May 19 (June 1)	437
The Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties	489