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Preface by Progress Publishers

 

April, 1917

The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April Theses)	19
How We Arrived	27
Two Worlds	30
Notes for an Article or Speech in Defence of the April Theses	32
Blancism	34
The Dual Power	38
Letters on Tactics	42
The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution Draft Platform for the Proletarian Party The Class Character of the Revolution That Has Taken Place The Foreign Policy of the New Government The Peculair Nature of the Dual Power and its Class Significance The Peculiar Nature of the Tactics Which Follow From the Above Revolutionary Defencism and its Class Significance How Can the War be Ended? A New Type of State Emerging From Our Revolution The Agrarian and National Programmes Nationalisation of the Banks and Capitalist Syndicates The Situation Within the Socialist International The Collapse of the Zimmerwald International---The Need for Founding a Third International What Should Be the Name of Our Party--One That Will Be Correct Scientifically and Help to Clarify the Mind of the Proletariat Politically? Postscript	55
Political Parties in Russia and the Tasks of the Proletariat	93
Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Soldiers of the Izmailovsky Regiment April 10 (23), 1917	107
A Shameless Lie of the Capitalists	110
The War and the Provisional Government	112
In the Footsteps of Russkaya Volya	115
A Partnership of Lies	118
Banks and Ministers	122
An Important Exposure	123
To the Soldiers and Sailors	124
Against the Riot-Mongers	127
Citizens! See What Methods the Capitalists of All Countries Are Using!	131
A “Voluntary Agreement” Between Landowners and Peasants?	134
An Honest Voice in a Chorus of Slanderers	135
The Soldiers and the Land	137
The Petrograd City Conference of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) 1. Report on the Present Situation and the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government, April 13 (27) 2. Concluding Remarks in the Debate Concerning the Report on the Present Situation, April 14 (27) 3. Two Remarks During the Debate on the Resolution Concerning the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government, April 15 (28) 4. Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government 5. Two Remarks During the Debate on the Question of the Municipal Elections, April 22 (May 5) 6. Resolution on the Municipal Question 7. Draft Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Parties of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Menshevik Social-Democrats, the “Non-Faction” Social-Democrats and other Kindred Political Trends 8. Draft Resolution on the War	139
Congress of Peasants' Deputies	167
On the Return of the Emigrants	171
Our Views. A Reply To The Resolution Of the Executive Commission Of The Soviet Of Soldiers’ Deputies	172
How They Tied Themselves to the Capitalists	176
A Proletarian Militia	179
Bankruptcy?	183
Resolution of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) of April 20 (May 3), 1917 on the Crisis Caused by the Provisional Government's Note of April 18 (May 1), 1917	184
Appeal to the Soldiers of All the Belligerent Countries	186
The Provisional Government's Note	189
A Basic Question A Line of Argument Used by Socialists Who Have Gone Over to the Bourgeoisie	192
Icons Versus Cannons, Phrases Versus Capital	196
The Logic of Citizen V. Chernov	198
Mr. Plekhanov's Futile Attempts to Extricate Himself	199
Resolution of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) Adopted April 21 (May 4), 1917	201
Honest Defencism Reveals Itself	204
Mad Capitalists or Weak-Minded Social-Democrats?	207
The Advice or Order of Shingaryov, and the Advice of a Local Soviet	209
Resolution of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks) Adopted in the Morning of April 22 (May 5), 1917	210
Lessons of the Crisis	213
How a Simple Question Can Be Confused	217
“Disgrace” as the Capitalists and the Proletarians Understand It	220
Interview Given to E. Torniainen April 23 (May 6), 1917	222
Foolish Gloating	223
The Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the RSDLP(b) 1. Speech Delivered at the Opening of the Conference (April 24) 2. Report on the Current Situation (April 24) 3. Speech Winding Up the Debate on the Report on the Current Situation (April 24) 4. Speech on the Proposal to Call An International Socialist Conference (April 25) 5. Resolution on Borgbjerg's Proposal 6. Speech on the Attitude Towards The Soviets (April 25 — Brief Press Report) 7. Draft Theses to the Resolution on the Soviets 8. Speech In Favour of the Resolution on the War (April 27) 9. Resolution on the War 10. Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government 11. Report on the Question of Revising the Party Programme (April 28) 12. Resolution on the Question of Revising the Party Programme (April 28) 13. Report on the Agrarian Question (April 28) 14. Rejoinder to N. S. Angarsky During the Debate on the Agrarian Question (April 28) 15. Resolution on the Agrarian Question (April 29) 16. Resolution on Uniting the Internationalists Against the Petty-Bourgeois Defencist Bloc 17. Resolution on the Soviets of Workers and Soldiers' Deputies 18. Speech on the National Question (April 29) 19. Resolution on the National Question 20. Speech on the Situation Within the International and the Tasks of the RSDLP(b) (April 29) 21. Speech In Favour of the Resolution on the Current Situation (April 29) 22. Resolution on the Current Situation 23. Concluding Speech at the Close of the Conference (April 29)	225

May, 1917

Introduction to the Resolutions of the Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the RSDLP(b)	314
The Significance of Fraternisation	318
What the Counter-Revolutionary Steps of the Provisional Government Lead To	321
Social-Chauvinists and Internationalists	324
I. G. Tsereteli and the Class Struggle	326
Anxiety	330
The “Crisis of Power”	332
Finland and Russia	335
A Letter to the Editors (May 15, 1917)	339
Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases	340
An Unfortunate Document	343
Frightening the People with Bourgeois Terrors	346
On the Eve	349
They Have Forgotten the Main Thing	350
Mandate to Deputies of the Soviet Elected at Factories and Regiments	354
Class Collaboration With Capital, or Class Struggle Against Capital?	357
A Strong Revolutionary Government	360
Titbits for the “Newborn” Government	362
Already the “New” Government is Lagging Behind Even the Peasant Mass, Leave Alone the Revolutionary Workers	365
Stealing a March on the Workers	367
An Open Letter to the Delegates to the All-Russia Congress of Peasants’ Deputies	370
The “Virtual Armistice”	375
Secrets of Foreign Policy	378
One of the Secret Treaties	380
Ministerial Tone	382
In Search of a Napoleon	383
Nothing Has Changed	384
A Regrettable Deviation From the Principles of Democracy	385
On the Question of Convening an International, So-Called Socialist Conference Jointly with the Social-Chauvinists	388
Speech at a Meeting at the Putilov Works May 12 (25), 1917	389
The Proletarian Party at the District Council Elections	390
Statements About the War Made By Our Party Before the Revolution	393
Impending Debacle	395
War and Revolution	398
Despicable Methods	422
Inevitable Catastrophe and Extravagant Promises	424
The Question of Uniting the Internationalists	431
Muddleheadedness	433
Combating Economic Chaos By a Spate of Commissions	436
One More Departure From Democratic Principles	437
How the Capitalists Are Trying to Scare the People	439
One More Crime of the Capitalists	441
Still More Lies	443
A Letter to the Editors (May 18, 1917)	444
Has Dual Power Disappeared?	445
On the “Unauthorised Seizure” of Land	449
Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme Preface to the Pamphlet Proposed Amendments to the Doctrinal, Political and Other Sections of the Programme Comments on the Remarks Made by the Committee of the April All-Russia Conference Draft of Revised Programme	455
First All-Russian Congress of Peasants' Deputies Draft Resolution on the Agrarian Programme (May 17, 1917) Speech on the Agrarian Programme (May 22, 1917)	481
Parties in the Petrograd District Council Elections	506
Two Shortcomings	512
Resolution on Measures to Cope with Economic Disorganisation	513
A Deal With the Capitalists or Overthrow of the Capitalists?	516
The Chain Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Link	519
The Capitalists Must Be Exposed	521
Reports on the Economic Debacle	523
“Sleight of Hand” and Unprincipled Politicians	527
The Dark Forces Are For the Cadets, the Mensheviks and Narodniks Are in One Government With the Cadets	529
The Shameful Menshevik-Narodnik Bloc with Yedinstvo	531
Counter-Revolution Takes the Offensive (“Jacobins without the People”)	533
A Question of Principle ("Forgotten Words" of Democracy)	536
For Lack of a Clean Principled Weapon They Snatch at a Dirty One	539
Meeting of the Petrograd Committee of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks)	541
The Harm of Phrase-Mongering	546
Capitalist Mockery of the People	549
Letter to the District Committees of the Petrograd Organisation of the RSDLP (Bolsheviks)	552
Speech Made at the First Petrograd Conference of Shop Committees May 31 (June 13), 1917	556

June, 1917

Infamy Justified	558
The Petty-Bourgeois Stand on the Question of Economic Disorganisation	562
A Mote in the Eye	565
It Is Undemocratic, Citizen Kerensky!	568
Bolshevism and “Demoralisation” of the Army	570
The Laugh Is On You!	573