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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume 16 contains works written by V. I. Lenin in the period from September 1909 to December 1910.

The volume consists mainly of articles and documents devoted to the struggle for the Party and its revolutionary principles, against the two kinds of opportunism in the Party: the liquidators, the “direct opponents of the Party”, and the otzovists, the “hidden enemies of the Party”, as well as against the conciliators, who served as a screen for both kinds of opportunists.

The articles “The Liquidators Exposed”, “Methods of the Liquidators and Party Tasks of the Bolsheviks”, “Golos Sotsial-Demokrata and Cherevanin”, and “Golos (Voice) of the Liquidators Against the Party" are devoted to the struggle against liquidationism —the agency of the liberal bourgeoisie in the Party.

The articles “The Faction of Supporters of Otzovism and God-building”, “A Word to the Bolsheviks of St. Petersburg”, “A Shameful Fiasco” and “The Vperyod Faction”, are directed against otzovism and ultimatumism.

The work “Notes of a Publicist” gives an appraisal of the decisions of the plenary session of the CC of the RSDLP in January 1910 and an account of the struggle at the plenary session against the liquidators, Trotskyists and conciliators.

The articles “The Eleventh Session of the International Socialist Bureau”, “The Question of Co-operative Societies at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen”, “Two Worlds”, and “Differences in the European Labour Movement” are directed against opportunism in the European labour movement, against the treacherous policy of the leaders of the Second International.

The articles “The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia” and “Strike Statistics in Russia” are devoted to a study of the experience of the Revolution of 1905-07.

Included in this volume are eight documents published in the Collected Works for the first time: “To Pupils of the Capri School”, which reveals the anti-Party activity of the Capri school; “Ideological Decay and Disunity Among Russian Social-Democrats”; “The Vperyod Group”; “Announcement on the Publication of Rabochaya Gazeta”; “An Open Letter to All Pro-Party Social-Democrats” with an exposition of the inner-Party situation after the January plenum of the CC of the RSDLP in 1910; and two statements to the Central Committee of the RSDLP Like the majority of the works in this volume, these documents are devoted to the struggle for the Party, the struggle on two fronts.

Among the newly included articles is a large work of Lenin's, “The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture”, written at the end of 1910. The manuscript of this work has not yet been found in its entirety. The end of the article with the signature V. Ilyin, as well as the end of Chapter I and the beginning of Chapter II, which were absent when the work was published in 1932, have now been found, and therefore Chapters I, II and VII are now published in full for the first time.

 

1909

The Liquidators Exposed	15
On the Open Letter of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Regional Committee	23
The Election in St. Petersburg A Comment	24
The Faction of Supporters of Otzovism and God-Building	29
Once More on Partyism and Non-Partyism	62
A Word to the Bolsheviks of St. Petersburg	65
Note to the Article “The St. Petersburg Election”	76
Draft Resolution on the Consolidation of the Party and of Its Unity	77
Speech at the Meeting of the International Socialist Bureau on the Split in the Dutch Social-Democratic Labour Party From the Report in the “Bulletin” of the I.S.B.	78
The Tsar Against the Finnish People	79
To Pupils of the Capri School	82
A Shameful Fiasco	85
Some Sources of the Present Ideological Discord	87
Methods of the Liquidators and Party Tasks of the Bolsheviks	95
Golos Sotsial-Demokrata and Cherevanin	103
The Bourgeois Press Fable About the Expulsion of Gorky	106
Ideological Decay and Disunity Among Russian Social-Democrats	107
Explanatory Note on the Draft of the Main Grounds of the Bill on the Eight-Hour Working Day	110
Letter to I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov	117
Concerning Vekhi	123
The Last Word of Russian Liberalism	132
The Eleventh Session of the International Socialist Bureau	140
The Vperyod Group A Conspectus	145

1910

Towards Unity	147
Golos (Voice) of the Liquidators Against the Party Reply to Golos Sotsial-Demokrata	156
What to Fight For?	165
The Campaign Against Finland	171
They are Nervous About the Army	176
Party Unity Abroad	185
One of the Obstacles to Party Unity	189
To the Central Committee of the RSDLP	191
Notes of a Publicist I. The “Platform” of the Adherents and Defenders of Otzovism II. The “Unity Crisis” in Our Party Two Views on Unity “The Fight on Two Fronts” and the Overcoming of Deviations The Terms of Unity and Sectarian Diplomacy Paragraph I of the Resolution on the State of Affairs in the Party The Significance of the December (1908) Resolutions and the Attitude of the Liquidators to Them The Group of Independent-Legalists Pro-Party Menshevism and Its Evaluation Conclusion. The Platform of the Bolsheviks	195
The Jubilee Number of Zihna	260
Draft Resolution on Co-Operative Societies from the Russian Social-Democratic Delegation at the Copenhagen Congress	265
To the International Socialist Bureau on the Representation of the RSDLP	267
The Vperyod Faction	268
The Question of Co-Operative Societies at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen	275
How Certain Social-Democrats Inform the International About the State of Affairs in the RSDLP	284
Announcement on the Publication of Rabochaya Gazeta	287
The Lessons of the Revolution	296
Two Worlds	305
The Demonstration on the Death of Muromtsev A comment	314
Is This the Turn of the Tide?	320
L. N. Tolstoy	323
To the Comrades Studying at the School in Bologna	328
L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement	330
An Open Letter to All Pro-Party Social-Democrats	333
Differences in the European Labour Movement	345
Tolstoy and the Proletarian Struggle	353
The Beginning of Demonstrations	355
What is Happening in the Countryside?	359
Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin An Obituary	361
To the Central Committee	365
Heroes of “Reservation”	368
The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia	374
Strike Statistics in Russia	393
The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture First article I. A General Picture of the Economic System of Modern Agriculture II. The Real Nature of the Majority of Modern Agricultural “Farms” (Proletarian “Farms") III. Peasant Farms Under Capitalism IV. Labour of Women and Children in Agriculture V. Squandering of Labour in Small-Scale Production VI. The Capitalist Character of the Use of Machinery in Modern Agriculture VII. The Low Productivity of Labour in Small-Scale Production and Excessive Work	423