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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume Thirteen contains works written by Lenin between June 1907 and April 1908.

The articles “Against Boycott”, “Notes of a Publicist”, “Revolution and Counter-Revolution”, “The Third Duma”, “Political Notes”, and “The New Agrarian Policy” are devoted to an analysis and appraisal of the political situation in Russia after the defeat of the first revolution and to defining the tasks of the Party organisations during the period of reaction. In these articles, as well as in the speeches delivered at the St. Petersburg and All-Russian conferences of the RSDLP, which are published in this volume, Lenin also formulated the aims of the Duma tactics of the Bolsheviks at that new stage.

The volume includes such important works of Lenin on the agrarian question as The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx” (Chapters X-XII) and The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution 1905-1907.

Included in the volume is the Preface to the first, three- volume collection of Lenin's writings, entitled Twelve Years, which was not published in full owing to persecution by the censorship. The Preface is a short review of the history of Lenin's struggle for revolutionary Marxism against liberalism ·and opportunism.

The volume contains the article “Trade-Union Neutrality” in which Lenin criticises the opportunism of Plekhanov and the Mensheviks, who attempted to make the labour movement in Russia take the path of trade-unionism.

Two articles under the same title “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart” reflect the struggle waged by Lenin and the Bolsheviks against opportunism in the international labour movement. The articles expose the deviations of the German Social-Democrats from the positions of revolutionary Marxism.

For the first time in any collection of Lenin's works, this volume contains the draft resolution of the Third Conference of the RSDLP ("Second All-Russian") on the question of participation in the elections to the Third Duma, “Outline of a Draft Resolution on the All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions”, the note “On Plekhanov's Article”, and “Statement of the Editors of Proletary”.

In the “Preface to the Pamphlet by Voinov (A. V. Lunacharsky) on the Attitude of the Party Towards the Trade Unions”, also included for the first time in Lenin's Collect ed Works, Lenin opposes the slogan of “neutrality” of the trade unions and urges the necessity of close alignment of the trade unions with the Party with a view to developing the socialist consciousness of the proletariat and educating the latter in the spirit of revolutionary Social-Democracy.

 

1907

Against Boycott Notes of a Social-Democratic Publicist	15
In Memory of Count Heyden What Are Our Non-Party “Democrats” Teaching the People?	50
Theses of a Report Made at the St. Petersburg City Conference of July 8 on the Attitude of the Social-Democratic Labour Party to the Third Duma	58
The Third Conference of the RSDLP (Second All-Russian) Draft Resolution on Participation in the Elections to the Third Duma Outline of a Draft Resolution on the All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions	60
Notes of a Publicist	62
The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart (Proletary)	75
The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart (Kalendar dlya vsekh, 1908)	82
Preface to the Collection Twelve Years	94
Revolution and Counter-Revolution	114
The Third Duma	123
On Plekhanov’s Article	133
Conference of the St. Petersburg Organisation of the RSDLP From a Newspaper Report Report on the Third State Duma Resolution on the Third State Duma Report on the Participation of Social-Democrats in the Bourgeois Press	135
The Fourth Conference of the RSDLP (“Third All-Russian”) From a Newspaper Report Report on the Tactics of the Social-Democratic Group in the Third State Duma Resolution on the Tactics of the Social-Democratic Group in the Third State Duma	141
The Preparation of a “Disgusting Orgy”	147
But Who Are the Judges?	153
Preface to the Pamphlet by Voinov (A. V. Lunacharsky) on the Attitude of the Party Towards the Trade Unions	161
The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx” X. The “Work” of the German Bulgakov, E. David XI. Livestock in Small and Large Farms XII. The “Ideal Country” from the Standpoint of the Opponents of Marxism on the Agrarian Question	169
The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907 Chapter I. The Economic Basis and Nature of the Agrarian Revolution In Russia Landownership in European Russia What Is the Struggle About? The Cadet Writers Obscure the Nature of the Struggle The Economic Nature of the Agrarian Revolution and its Ideological Cloaks Two Types of Bourgeois Agrarian Evolution Two Lines of Agrarian Programmes in the Revolution Russia's Land Area. The Question of the Colonisation Summary of the Economic Deductions of Chapter I Chapter II. The Agrarian Programmes of the RSDLP and Their Test in the First Revolution What Was the Mistake in the Previous Agrarian Programmes of Russian Social-Democracy? The Present Agrarian Programme of the RSDLP The Chief Argument of the Municipalisers Tested by Events The Agrarian Programme of the Peasantry Medieval Landownership and the Bourgeois Revolution Why Had the Small Proprietors in Russia to Declare in Favour of Nationalisation? The Peasants and the Narodniks on the Nationalisation of Allotment Land The Mistake Made by M. Shanin and Other Advocates of Division Chapter III. The Theoretical Basis of Nationalisation and of Municipalisation What Is Nationalisation of the Land? Pyotr Maslov Corrects Karl Marx's Rough Notes Is it Necessary to Refute Marx in Order to Refute the Narodniks? Is the Repudiation of Absolute Rent Connected with the Programme of Municipalisation? Criticism of Private Landownership from the Standpoint of the Development of Capitalism The Nationalisation of the Land and “Money” Rent Under What Conditions Can Nationalisation Be Brought About? Does Nationalisation Mean Transition to Division? Chapter IV. Political and Tactical Considerations in Questions of the Agrarian Programme “A Guarantee Against Restoration” Local Self-Government as a “Bulwark Against Reaction” The Central Authority and the Consolidation of the Bourgeois State The Scope of the Political and of the Agrarian Revolutions A Peasant Revolution Without the Conquest of Power by the Peasantry? Is Land Nationalisation a Sufficiently Flexible Method? Municipalisation of the Land and Municipal Socialism Some Examples of the Muddle Caused by Municipalisation Chapter V. Classes and Parties in the Debate on the Agrarian Question in the Second Duma The Rights and the Octobrists The Cadets The Right Peasants The Non-Party Peasants The Narodnik Intellectuals The Trudovik Peasants (Narodniks) The Socialist-Revolutionaries The “Nationals” The Social-Democrats Conclusion Postscript	217

1908

The Debate on the Extension of the Duma’s Budgetary Powers	432
Postscript to the Article “The Debate on the Extension of the Duma’s Budgetary Powers”	439
Political Notes	440
Statement of the Editors of Proletary	447
A Letter to A. M. Gorky	448
The New Agrarian Policy	455
Trade-Union Neutrality	460
The Happening to the King of Portugal	470
Lessons of the Commune	475
A Police-Patriotic Demonstration Made to Order	479
Deception of the People by the Liberals	485
An Estimate of Marx by International Liberalism	490