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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume 36 Contains some of Lenin's writings from 1900 to 1923. A large part of the volume Consists of his letters directly Connected with the letters, telegrams and notes printed in Volumes 34 and 35. The letters for 1900-03 to P. B. Axelrod, G. V. Plekhanov, V. P. Nogin, S. I. Badchenko, P. N. Lepeshinsky and P. A. Krasikov, Yelena StasoVa and others show Lenin's Varied activity in Creating the first all-Russia, illegal Marxist paper, Iskra, and the journal Zarya, and throw light on his struggle against “Legal Marxism” and Economism. The letters for 1903-04 to G. M. Krzhizhanovsky, V. A. Noskov, V. D. Bonch Bruyevic,h, G. D. Leiteisen and others relate to Lenin's struggle against the disrupting and disorganising activities of the Mensheviks after the Second Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.

The correspondence for 1905-07 sheds light on Lenin's activity in connection with the calling of the Third Party Congress and the fulfilment of its decisions.

The documents for the years of reaction show the measures taken by Lenin to resume publication of the newspaper Proletary in Geneva and improve the work of the Central Organ, and his struggle against open and undercover liquidationism and the attempts to distort the theoretical foundations of the revolutionary Marxist party.

A number of documents reflect Lenin's activity in the International Socialist Bureau.

A large number of letters during the years of the First World War addressed to V. A. Karpinsky, A. G. Shlyapnikov, Alexandra Kollontai and others deal with the resumption of publication of Sotsial-Demokrat (the Central Organ of the Party), the rallying of internationalist elements, and the exposure of social-chauvinism and Centrism in Russian and international Social-Democracy. The question of calling the internationalists' conferences at Zimmerwald and Kienthal is a prominent one in these letters.

A considerable part of the documents in the volume represent spadework done by Lenin—plans, summaries, outlines, theses. Among them are the “Preliminary Draft of the April Theses", “Plan for a Report on the Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the RSDLP(b)", “Draft Decree on Consumers' Communes. Preliminary Theses”, “Material for the Fourth (Extraordinary) All-Russia Congress of Soviets", “Notes on the Question of Reorganising State Control”, “On Polytechnical Education. Notes on Theses by Nadezhda Konstantinovna*", [* N. K. Krupskaya.—Ed.] “Notes for a Speech at the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b) on the Substitution of Food Requisitioning by a Tax”, “Notes for a Report at the Second All-Russia Congress of Political Education Workers", “Notes on the History of the RCP", “Notes for a Speech on March 27, 1922", “Notes for a Report 'Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution'", and “Outline of Speech at the Tenth All-Russia Congress of Soviets”.

The volume includes 59 works (marked with an asterisk in the contents) which were first published in the Collected Works in the Fourth Russian Edition. Three letters to G. V. Plekhanov—November 9, 1900, July 13, 1901 and December 1, 1902—relate to the period when Plekhanov was a member of Iskra's editorial board. They draw attention to the need to repel the efforts of some members of the board to weaken Iskra's fight against opportunism and revisionism, and give details on the preparation of material for the various issues of the paper.

In a letter to Karl H. Branting on April 19, 1901, Lenin invites the Swedish and Finnish Social-Democrats to establish closer relations through contributions to the newspaper Iskra and the journal Zarya. Lenin points out how important it would be for the Russian people, the Russian workers in particular, to be informed about the political state of the people of Finland amid their struggle against tsarism.

The volume includes the “Preface to the Speeches of Nizhni-Novgorod Workers in Court”, written before December 1 (14), 1902. In his letters to the secretary of the British Labour Representation Committee, dated March 23 and May 20, 1905, Lenin gives an account of the disbursement of the money sent in aid of the families who had suffered on “Bloody Sunday” (January 9 122 1, 1905).

In a letter to Lydia Fotieva on June 1 or 2, 1905, Lenin tells of his intention to give a lecture in Paris on “The Third Congress and Its Decisions”. The article, “The State of Affairs in the Party”, written in July 1911 during the preparations for the Party Conference at Prague, deals with the struggle against the conciliators and their Menshevik and Trotskyite allies, who were trying to prevent the calling of the Conference.

Eight letters addressed to the editorial board of the Bolshevik paper Pravda (five in October and November 1912, and three between February and April 1914) show Lenin's guidance of Pravda, which brought up a whole generation of revolutionary Russian workers known as “Pravdists”; the letters deal at length with the work of the editorial board in connection with the Fourth Duma election campaign.

The volume includes nine articles written for Pravda in 1912 and 1913 but not printed at the time, and 16 articles published in Pravda in 1913 and 1914, part of them unsigned, part over various pen-names, and which were only established as belonging to Lenin on the strength of fresh archive documents.

His articles “After the Elections in America", “More Zeal than Sense” and “In America” expose the deception of the masses by the bourgeois parties, and the cynical and dirty trading in “party principles” during the elections to secure the fat jobs in the Administration. Lenin showed how the American multi-millionaires under the pretext of providing external defence for the state, were in reality defending the interests of the capitalist monopolies; he explained that the workers of all countries stood for peace, and that imperialist wars waged in the interests of the Capitalists involved tremendous sacrifices.

In a number of articles, Lenin analyses the working-class movement in Germany. The proletariat's growing indignation against the imperialists and the plunder of the masses by a handful of capitalist arms manufacturers is described in “The German Social-Democrats and Armaments”. In “Lessons of the Belgian Strike”, he examines the general strike by the Belgian proletariat in April 1913 to back up their demand for universal suffrage. “The High Cost of Living and the 'Hard' Life of the Capitalists” and “Capitalism and Female Labour” deal with the plight of the workers in tsarist Russia and give a vivid description of the enrichment of a handful of capitalists and the impoverishment and ruin of the masses of working people in capitalist conditions.

Included for the first time in the Fourth Russian Edition of the Collected Works are the plan for a lecture on “The Russian Revolution, Its Significance and Its Tasks”, delivered at Zurich not later than March 27, 1917; a letter to Giacinto M. Serrati of December 4, 1918; “Draft Third Clause of the General Political Section of the Programme (for the Programme Commission of the Eighth Party Congress)", showing the essence of proletarian socialist democracy and its basic distinction from bourgeois democracy; a telegram to Bela Kun of May 13, 1919, with greetings for the Red Army of the Hungarian workers and peasants, and a letter to Bela Kun of June 18, 1919, warning him not to trust the Entente,* [* See Note 260.—Ed.] which was only trying to gain time to crush the revolution.

A group of documents (December 31, 1920-August 5, 1921) deal with the manufacture of electric ploughs.

In a letter to the chairman of the State Bank, A. L. Sheinman, on February 28, 1922, Lenin points to the defects in the work of the State Bank and the need for a more careful selection of personnel. In a letter to N. Osinsky on April 12, 1922, Lenin underlines the importance of studying and broadly popularising advanced local experience.

The volume includes documents dictated by Lenin in December 1922-January 1923: “Letter to the Congress”, known as the “Testament", and letters “Granting Legislative Functions to the State Planning Commission” and “The Question of Nationalities or 'Autonomisation'".

These works lead up to Lenin's last writings, which are of programme significance: “Pages from a Diary", “On Co-operation", “Our Revolution (Apropos of N. Sukhanov's Notes)", “How We Should Reorganise the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection (Recommendation for the Twelfth Party Congress)" and “Better Fewer, But Better” dictated in January and February 1923 and published at the time in Pravda (see present edition, Vol. 33).

In his “Letter to the Congress” Lenin emphasises the need to preserve the Communist Party's unity, and proposes practical steps to ensure it, enhance the Central Committee's prestige and improve the Party machinery. Lenin proposes that the number of members of the Party's CC should be increased to between 50 and 100. He describes the personality of some Central Committee members, and points out Stalin's defects and suggests a discussion of the question of replacing him by another comrade as Secretary General.

In his letter “Granting Legislative Functions to the State Planning Commission” Lenin points out the need to extend its terms of reference and tells of the political and business qualities its leaders should possess.

Of great importance is Lenin's letter, “The Question of Nationalities or 'Autonomisation'", written before and during the First Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R. It vividly brings out Lenin's role as the true inspirer and creator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and his concern for a correct national policy and the strengthening of the U.S.S.R. He demands the application of the principles of proletarian internationalism and the strengthening of the friendship of all the peoples of the Soviet Union, great and small.

He condemns the Great-Power deviation in the national question as the principal danger at the time, points out the harmfulness of Great-Power and chauvinist distortion of the idea of unifying the Soviet republics, and denounces the excessive centralism and bureaucratic practices in this sphere. He stresses the need to ensure full and effective equality of nations, to exercise skill in conducting the national policy and take account of the particular features and interests of the various nations, and to strengthen the sovereignty of each republic as a necessary condition for the people's unity and fraternal friendship.

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The works of Lenin included in Volume 36 are given in chronological order, with the documents sent from abroad dated in the New Style.

The volume contains an index of names identifying the assumed names used in the text.

 

1900

Letters Addressed to:

Y. M. STEKLOV. Not later than September 4	29
***. Between September 6 and 15	32
P. B. AXELROD. October 10	34
P. B. AXELROD. October 18	36
P. B. AXELROD. October 19	38
P. B. AXELROD. October 21	39
V. P. NOGIN. November 2	41
P. B. AXELROD. November 8	43
P. B. AXELROD. November 8	45
* G. V. PLEKHANOV. November 9	48
P. B. AXELROD. November 16	53
P. B. AXELROD. November 19	55
P. B. AXELROD. November 26	57
P. B. AXELROD. December 11	58
P. B. AXELROD. December 14	60
P. B. AXELROD. December 24	61

1901

Letters Addressed to:

V. P. NOGIN. January 3	63
V. P. NOGIN. January 24	65
THE BORBA GROUP. February 3	67
THE BORBA GROUP. February 21	69
P. B. AXELROD. February 27	71
F. I. DAN. March 22	73
V. P. NOGIN. April 6	75
* KARL H. BRANTING. April 19	76
G. V. PLEKHANOV. April 21	78
M. G. VECHESLOV. April 25	79
S. I. RADCHENKO. End of April	81
P. N. LEPESHINSKY AND P. A. KRASIKOV. June 1	82
P. B. AXELROD. June 1	84
M. G. VECHESLOV. June 17	86
P. B. AXELROD July 9	87
* G. V. PLEKHANOV. July 13	89
P. B. AXELROD. July 21	91
P. B. AXELROD. August 24	94
P. B. AXELROD. August 30	96
E. L. GUREVICH. November 3	98
LYUBOV AXELROD. November 27	100
G. V. PLEKHANOV. December 1	102
G. V. PLEKHANOV December 19	104
L. I. GOLDMAN. December	105

1902

TO LYUBOV AXELROD. February 18	106
TO P. B. AXELROD. March 22	107
TO P. B. AXELROD. March 27	108
TO A. A. BOGDANOV. Between March 28 and April 19	110
TO F. V. LENGNIK. May 23	112
TO I. I. RADCHENKO. June 22	113
TO G. V. PLEKHANOV. July 2	115
TO NADEZHDA KRUPSKAYA. July 16	117
TO I. I. RADCHENKO. July 16	119
TO ALEXANDRA KALMYKOVA. September 27	122
* PREFACE TO THE SPEECHES OF NIZHNI-NOVGOROD WORKERS IN COURT	124
* TO G. V. PLEKHANOV. December 1	125

1903

TO F. V. LENGNIK. January 17	126
TO YELENA STASOVA. January 28	127
TO G. M. KRZHIZHANOVSKY AND V. A. NOSKOV. October 5.	128
TO F. I. DAN. December 2	130

1904

TO THE SOUTHERN BUREAU OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RSDLP End of May	131
TO V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH. July 26	133
TO V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH. Between August 18 and 31	135
TO V. D. BONCH-BRUYEVICH. September 13	137
TO G. D. LEITEISEN. September 29	138
TO MARIA GOLUBEVA. After October 6	139
TO E. E. ESSEN. November 4	140
TO A. I. YERAMASOV. December	141

1905

TO *** March 9	142
* TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH LABOUR REPRESENTATION COMMITTEE. March 23	144
TO P. A. KRASIKOV. April 5	145
TO *** April-May	146
* TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH LABOUR REPRESENTATION COMMITTEE. May 20	147
* TO LYDIA FOTIEVA. June 1 or 2	148
TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RSDLP. September 15	149
TO M. A. REISNER. October 4	154
TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RSDLP. October 25.	155

1907

TO M. S. KEDROV. End of November and beginning of December 1908

156

1908

TO G. A. ALEXINSKY. January 7	157
TO G. A. ALEXINSKY. Between January 7 and February 2	158
TO G. A. ALEXINSKY. February 3	159
TO MAXIM GORKY. First half of March	160
TO MARIA ANDREYEVA. End of April	161
TO Th. A. ROTHSTEIN. July 8	162
NOTE TO A. A. BOGDANOV. October 27 or 28	164

1909

TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV. August	165
TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV. September 7 or 14	166

1910

TO LEON TYSZKA. March 28	167
TO MARIA ZOLINA. April 30	170
TO LEON TYSZKA. July 20	171
TO KARL RADEK. September 30	172
TO KARL RADEK. October 9	174
TO G. V. PLEKHANOV. November 22	176

1911

TO G. V. PLEKHANOV. February 3	177
TO MAXIM GORKY. End of April	178
* THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THE PARTY	180
TO MAXIM GORKY. September 15	185
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. September 25	187
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. Between September 26 and 28	188

1912

* WHAT IS THE CADET ELECTION PLATFORM?	189
* WORKERS' UNITY AND THE ELECTIONS	191
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. October 8	193
* TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF PRAVDA. First half of October	194
* TO THE EDITOR OF PRAVDA. After October 3	197
* TO THE EDITOR OF PRAVDA. November 2	199
* TO THE EDITOR OF PRAVDA. After November 2	200
* TO G. V. PLEKHANOV. November 17	202
* AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN AMERICA	204
* TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF PRAVDA. Before November 26	206
* MORE ZEAL THAN SENSE	207
* THE QUESTION OF PARTY AFFILIATION AMONG DEMOCRATIC-MINDED STUDENTS	209
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. Before December 20	211
* IN AMERICA	214
* THE WORKING CLASS AND ITS “PARLIAMENTARY” REPRESENTATIVES. Article Three	216
* THE WORKING CLASS AND ITS “PARLIAMENTARY” REPRESENTATIVES. Article Five	219

1913

* EUGÈNE POTTIER. The 25th Anniversary of His Death	223
* THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORKERS’ CHOIRS IN GERMANY	225
TO N. A. RUBAKIN. February 13	227
* THE INTERNATIONAL POLICY OF THE BOURGEOISIE	228
* CAPITALISM AND FEMALE LABOUR	230
* LANDOWNERS' CALL FOR “PACIFYING” THE COUNTRYSIDE	232
* LESSONS OF THE BELGIAN STRIKE	234
* THE BUILDING INDUSTRY AND BUILDING WORKERS	236
* AN ASSESSMENT OF THE FOURTH DUMA	238
* THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE “HARD” LIFE OF THE CAPITALISTS	240
* THE GERMAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS AND ARMAMENTS	242
* ORGANISATION OF THE MASSES BY THE GERMAN CATHOLICS	244
* HOLIDAYS FOR WORKERS	247
* THE MEANING OF AN “HISTORIC” FORMULA	249
* FROM WHOM DOES SUPPORT COME?	251
FROM FRANCE. From Our Correspondent	253
* DEPUTY FRANK FAVOURS THE MASS STRIKE	256
* AN INTERESTING CONGRESS	258
TO V. M. KASPAROV. Between June 18 and 22	260
TO G. I. SAFAROV. July 20	261
TO O. N. LOLA. July 20	262
TO J. S. HANECKI. September 12	263
TO V. L. LEDER. October 28	264
TO MAXIM GORKY. Beginning of November	265
TO MAXIM GORKY. Middle of November	266
TO N. I. BUKHARIN. December	267

1914

* TO THE EDITORS OF PUT PRAVDY. February 9	268
TO A. A. TROYANOVSKY. Not earlier than February 11	270
TO ISAAC A. HOURWICH. February 27	271
* TO THE EDITORS OF PUT PRAVDY. Before March 23	273
TO V. B. STANKEVICH. March 24	276
* TO THE EDITORS OF PUT PRAVDY. On the Question of the Articles About Ireland. Between April 7 and 23	277
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. End of April	279
* OUR TASKS	281
TO A. A. TROYANOVSKY. May 20	285
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. After May 23	286
TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV. Before July 16	287
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. July 31	288
TO M. V. KOBETSKY. August 2	290
TO VIKTOR ADLER. September 5	291
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. September 6	292
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. Before October 15	293
SPEECH AT G. V. PLEKHANOV'S LECTURE “ON THE ATTITUDE OF THE SOCIALISTS TO THE WAR”. SEPTEMBER 28 (OCTOBER 11), 1914. Brief Newspaper Report	294
LECTURE ON “THE PROLETARIAT AND THE WAR”. OCTOBER 1 (14), 1914. Newspaper Report	297
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. October 18	303
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. October 23	305
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. November 14	307
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. November 25	310
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. Between November 28 and December 8	311
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. Between December 5 and 12	312
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. December 9	313
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. After December 28	314

1915

TO V. A. KARPINSKY. January 3	316
TO THE EDITORIAL SECRETARY OF GRANAT PUBLICATIONS. January 4	317
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. Before January 17	318
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. Between January 20 and February 1.	319
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. January 30 or 31.	321
MAY DAY AND THE WAR	322
TO KARL RADEK. After June 19	329
TO KARL RADEK. July 15	332
TO KARL RADEK. Before August 4	334
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. Before August 11	337
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. August 16	338
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. After August 16	339
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. Before August 19.	341
TO V. M. KASPAROV. August 19	342
TO J. A. BERZIN. August 20	343
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. After August 19	344
TO YELIZAVETA RIVLINA. After August 19	345
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. Between September 8 and 13	346
TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV. Between September 11 and 15	348
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. September 13	349
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. September 13	350
TO KARL RADEK. Before September 18	351
TO KARL RADEK. September 19	352
TO M. M. KHARITONOV. September 19	353
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. September 19	354
TO KARL RADEK. After September 21	356
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. After September 26	357
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. End of September or beginning of October	358
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. October 6	359
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. November 22	360
TO V. A. KARPINSKY AND SOPHIA RAVICH. End of November or beginning of December	361
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. Before December 16	362

1916

TO HENRIETTE ROLAND-HOLST. After January 21	363
TO M. M. KHARITONOV January 27	365
TO M. M. KHARITONOV. January 29	366
TO MAXIM GORKY. Before February 8	367
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. February 13	368
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. February 17	369
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. February 24	370
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. February 27	371
TO Y. LARIN. March 13	372
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. March 19	373
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. After March 19	375
INITIAL VARIANT OF RSDLP CC PROPOSALS TO THE SECOND SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. PROPOSALS BY THE CC OF THE RSDLP TO THE SECOND SOCIALIST CONFERENCE CALLED BY THE I.S.C. (BERNE). (Theses on Items 5, 6, 7a, 7b and 8 of the Agenda)	377
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. April 4	388
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. Between April 19 and May 7	389
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. Between May 6 and 13.	390
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. May 17	392
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. May 23	393
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. After May 28	397
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. Late in May	399
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. After June 4	401
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV. June 17	403
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. June 27	408
TO ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI. July 25	409
TO ZINAIDA LILINA. After July 27	411
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. August 5	412
TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. Late in August	413
TO G. Y. BELENKY. October 26	414
ON THE AMENDMENT TO BEBEL'S RESOLUTION AT THE STUTTGART CONGRESS	415
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. December 20	416

1917

UNIDENTIFIED ADDRESSEE. January 11 or 12	417
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. January 19	418
TO SOPHIA RAVICH. After February 12	419
TO V. A. KARPINSKY. After March 19	420
TELEGRAM TO J. S. HANECKI. March 23	421
* PLAN FOR A LECTURE, “THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, ITS SIGNIFICANCE AND ITS TASKS”, DELIVERED AT ZURICH	422
TELEGRAM TO J. S. HANECKI. March 28	425
TELEGRAM TO J. S. HANECKI. March 30	426
TELEGRAM TO ROBERT GRIMM. March 31	427
TO THE ZURICH GROUP OF BOLSHEVIKS. April 2 or 3	428
TELEGRAM TO J. S. HANECKI. April 5	429
TELEGRAM TO HENRI GUILBEAUX. April 6	430
PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF THE APRIL THESES. Theses	431
SPEECH AT A MEETING OF THE PETROGRAD SOVIET EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON APRIL 4 (17), 1917 ON THE QUESTION OF THE PASSAGE ACROSS GERMANY. Minutes	433
REPORT AT A MEETING OF BOLSHEVIK DELEGATES TO THE ALL-RUSSIA CONFERENCE OF SOVIETS OF WORKERS' AND SOLDIERS' DEPUTIES APRIL 4 (17), 1917	434
TO J. S. HANECKI AND KARL RADEK. April 12	444
THESES ON THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT DECLARATION. Theses	446
PLAN FOR A REPORT ON THE SEVENTH (APRIL) ALL-RUSSIA CONFERENCE OF THE RSDLP(b) AT A MEETING OF THE PETROGRAD ORGANISATION. MAY 8 (21), 1917	448
FOR THE CONGRESS OF SOVIETS	452
NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV. Between July 5 (18) and 7 (20)	454
TO N. I. PODVOISKY OR V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. November 26	455
SPEECHES AT A MEETING OF THE CC OF THE RSDLP(b). NOVEMBER 29 (DECEMBER 12), 1917. Minutes	456
SESSION OF THE ALL-RUSSIA CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. DECEMBER 1 (14), 1917 1. Speech on the Question of Setting up a Supreme Economic Council. Newspaper Report	458
TO A. G. SHLYAPNIKOV AND F. E. DZERZHINSKY. Beginning of December	459
FROM A PUBLICIST'S DIARY. (Themes for Elaboration)	460
DRAFT DECREE ON CONSUMERS' COMMUNES 1. Preliminary Theses	464
TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. Between December 21 and 28, 1917 (January 3 and 10, 1918)	466

1918

SPEECHES ON WAR AND PEACE AT A MEETING OF THE CC OF THE RSDLP(b). JANUARY 11 (24), 1918. Minutes	467
TO THE NAVAL REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE. January 15.	471
TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. January 17 (30)	472
TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. Before January 21	473
TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. January 21	474
SPEECHES AT A MEETING OF THE CC OF THE RSDLP(b). JANUARY 24 (FEBRUARY 6), 1918. Minutes	475
TELEGRAM TO M. A. MURAVYOV. February 14	476
TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF M. A. MURAVYOV, TO THE SUPREME RUMANIAN BOARD, TO THE PEOPLE'S SECRETARIAT OF THE UKRAINIAN REPUBLIC, FOR V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. February 17	477
SPEECHES AT A MEETING OF THE CC OF THE RSDLP(b). FEBRUARY 18, 1918. Minutes	478
SPEECHES AT A MEETING OF THE CC OF THE RSDLP(b). FEBRUARY 23, 1918. Minutes	479
TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. February 23.	482
TELEGRAM TO V. A. ANTONOV-OVSEYENKO. February 28	483
MATERIAL FOR THE FOURTH (EXTRAORDINARY) ALL-RUSSIA CONGRESS OF SOVIETS 1. NOTES FOR A SPEECH AT A MEETING OF THE COMMUNIST GROUP OF THE CONGRESS 2. NOTES FOR A REPORT ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE PEACE TREATY	484
TO THE TASHKENT CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF THE TURKESTAN TERRITORY, TO THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF THE TURKESTAN TERRITORY, FOR IBRAHIMOV AND KLEVLEYEV. May 5 (April 22)	486
TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV. June 14	487
TELEGRAM TO COMMISSAR IVANOV. July 11	488
TELEGRAM TO YEVGENIA BOSCH. August 9	489
TELEGRAM TO THE PENZA GUBERNIA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. August 12	490
TELEGRAM TO M. S. KEDROV. August 12	491
TO N. I. MURALOV. August 29	492
DECISION OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COMMISSARS ON REPORTS BY THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIATS	493
TO M. F. VLADIMIRSKY. October 27	494
RADIOGRAM FROM MOSCOW TO ONE AND ALL. November 10	495
* TO GIACINTO M. SERRATI. December 4	496
IN MEMORY OF COMRADE PROSHYAN	497

1919

TELEGRAM TO THE KURSK EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSION. January 6	499
REPLY TO A PEASANT'S QUESTION	500
NOTES ON THE QUESTION OF REORGANISING STATE CONTROL	504
* DRAFT THIRD CLAUSE OF THE GENERAL POLITICAL SECTION OF THE PROGRAMME (FOR THE PROGRAMME COMMISSION OF THE EIGHTH PARTY CONGRESS)	505
TO E. M. SKLYANSKY. April 24	506
TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV. April 30	507
TELEGRAM TO L. B. KAMENEV. May 7	508
TELEGRAM TO BELA KUN. May 13	509
TELEGRAM TO S. A. GETSOV, KHARKOV CHIEF COAL BOARD. May 16	510
* TO V. A. AVANESOV. May 20	511
* TO BELA KUN. June 18	512
TO E. M. SKLYANSKY. September 4	513
FOREWORD TO G. ZINOVIEV'S ARTICLE “ON THE NUMERICAL COMPOSITION OF OUR PARTY”	514
TELEGRAM TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE PETROGRAD SOVIET ON YUDENICH’S OFFENSIVE. OCTOBER 14, 1919	515
* TO A. S. YENUKIDZE, L. B. KAMENEV AND YELENA STASOVA. November 12	516
NOTE TO D. I. KURSKY. Between December 17 and 23	517
NOTE TO D. I. KURSKY. Between December 17 and 23	518
INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK BY JOHN REED: TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD	519

1920

SPEECH AT A MEETING OF THE COMMUNIST GROUP IN THE ALL-RUSSIA CENTRAL COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS. MARCH 15, 1920. Minutes	520
TO V. P. MILYUTIN. April 23	524
POSTSCRIPT TO A RADIO MESSAGE OF MAY 6, 1920	525
TO S. I. BOTIN June 4	526
TO THE STATE PUBLISHING HOUSE AND TO Y. A. PREOBRAZHENSKY AND N. I. BUKHARIN. August 8	527
TO N. I. BUKHARIN. Late summer	528
TO ANNA YELIZAROVA. Autumn	529
TO M. N. POKROVSKY. December 5	530
* TELEGRAM TO FACTORIES MAKING ELECTRIC PLOUGHS. December 31	531
ON POLYTECHNICAL EDUCATION. Notes on Theses by Nadezhda Konstantinovna	532

1921

NOTES FOR A SPEECH AT THE TENTH CONGRESS OF THE RCP(b) ON THE SUBSTITUTION OF FOOD REQUISITIONING BY A TAX. Notes for a Speech on the Substitution of Food Requisitioning by a Tax	535
ON THE KRONSTADT REVOLT	538
TO N. I. BUKHARIN. March-April	539
TELEGRAM TO THE PETROGRAD REGIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL, TRADE UNION COUNCIL AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. May 27	540
TO S. G. SAID-GALIEV. July 20	541
* NOTE TO V. A. SMOLYANINOV. August 5	542
TO N. P. GORBUNOV. September 3	543
TO A. S. KISELYOV. September 15	546
NOTE TO G. I. KRUMIN. October 7	547
TO V. A. AVANESOV. October 15	548
NOTES FOR A REPORT AT THE SECOND ALL-RUSSIA CONGRESS OF POLITICAL EDUCATION WORKERS. The New Economic Policy and the Tasks of Political Education Workers	549
TO D. I. KURSKY ON THE QUESTION OF LEASES AND CONCESSIONS IN AGRICULTURE. October 25	551
NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF THE RCP List (Chronological) of Subjects of Dispute Struggle of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks: (Alternation of Numerical Relations)	552
TO V. A. AVANESOV, D. I. KURSKY AND A. D. TSYURUPA. December 13	555
TO P. A. BOGDANOV December 23	556

1922

ON THE QUESTION OF STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR	559
ON THE TASKS OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR JUSTICE UNDER THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY. February 20	560
TO A. D. TSYURUPA. On the Subject of the Draft Directives to the Narrow Council of People's Commissars. February 21	566
* TO A. L. SHEINMAN. February 28	567
TO V. A. TIKHOMIROV. March 1	569
TO I. I. SKVORTSOV-STEPANOV. March 19	570
NOTES FOR A SPEECH ON MARCH 27, 1922	571
TO D. I. KURSKY. March 31	576
* TO N. OSINSKY. April 12	578
TO MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGIUM OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT FOR WORKERS' AND PEASANTS' INSPECTION. August 21	580
TO V. A. AVANESOV. September 1	581
TO L. M. KHINCHUK. September 12	583
TO L. M. KHINCHUK. Not earlier than September 18	584
NOTES FOR A REPORT “FIVE YEARS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE PROSPECTS OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION” AT THE FOURTH CONGRESS OF THE COMINTERN	585
OUTLINE OF SPEECH AT THE TENTH ALL-RUSSIA CONGRESS OF SOVIETS	588

1922-23

“Last Testament” I. LETTER TO THE CONGRESS. December 23, 1922; Taken down by M.V. II. Continuation of the notes. December 25, 1922; Taken down by M.V. * Addition to the Letter of December 24, 1922 Taken down by L. F.; January 4, 1923 III. Continuation of the notes. Taken down by L. F.; December 26, 1922 IV. Continuation of the notes. Granting Legislative Functions to The State Planning Commission. December 27, 1922; Taken down by M. V. V. Continuation of the letter on the legislative nature of State Planning Commission decisions. Taken down by L. F.; December 28, 1922 VI. Continuation of the notes. Taken down by M. V.; December 29, 1922 December 29, 1922; Taken down by M. V. VII. Continuation of the notes. (Addition to the Section On Increasing the Number of CC Members) December 29, 1922; Taken down by M. V. Continuation of the notes. * The Question of Nationalities Or “Autonomisation” December 30, 1922; Taken down by M. V. Continuation of the notes. * The Question of Nationalities Or “Autonomisation” (Continued) Taken down by M. V.; December 31, 1922 Continuation of the notes. December 31, 1922; Taken down by M. V.

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