Lenin Collected Works/Volume 5

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Preface by Progress Publishers

Volume Five contains Lenin's works written between May 1901 and February 1902. These include articles and notes published in Iskra: “Where To Begin”, “Another Massacre”, “A Valuable Admission”, “The Lessons of the Crisis”, “The Serf-Owners at Work”, “Fighting the Famine-Stricken”, “Party Affairs Abroad”, “A Talk with Defenders of Economism”, “Demonstrations Have Begun”, “Political Agitation and 'The Class Point of View'", and others. In these articles Lenin deals with the most important events in Russian domestic affairs and throws light on the concrete tasks of building the Party and of the class struggle of the proletariat.

In the article “The Persecutors of the Zemstvo and the Hannibals of Liberalism”, published in Zarya in December 1901, Lenin elaborates the tactics of the Marxist party of the proletariat in relation to the liberal bourgeoisie.

"The Agrarian Question and the 'Critics of Marx'" expounds and develops the Marxist theory of the agrarian question and is a critique of the Russian and international revisionists.

This volume also contains Lenin's What Is To Be Done? the theoretical premises of which laid the foundations of the ideology of the Bolshevik Party.

Seven of the works of Lenin to be found in this volume are included in the Collected Works for the first time. Of these, three are notes published in Iskra: “A Zemstvo Congress”, “On a Letter from 'Southern Workers'", and “Reply to 'A Reader'". The other four documents are: “Speech Delivered on September 21 (October 4, new style)" [Lenin's speech at the “Unity” Conference of the RSDLP organisations abroad on September 21 (October 4), 19011, “The Journal Svoboda”, “On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Revolutionary Activity of G. V. Plekhanov”, and “Anarchism and Socialism”. These four items appeared in print only after the October Revolution.

 

1901

Where to Begin?
Another Massacre
The Persecutors of the Zemstvo and the Hannibals of Liberalism
A Valuable Admission
The Lessons of the Crisis
The Serf-Owners at Work
A Zemstvo Congress
The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx” I. The “Law” of Diminishing Returns II. The Theory of Rent III. Machinery in Agriculture IV. The Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and Country. Particular Questions Raised by the “Critics” V. "The Prosperity of Advanced, Modern Small Farms” The Baden Example VI. The Productivity of a Small and a Big Farm. An Example from East Prussia VII. The Inquiry into Peasant Farming in Baden VIII. General Statistics of German Agriculture for 1882 and 1895. The Question of the Medium Farms IX. Dairy Farming and Agricultural Co-operative Societies in Germany. The Agricultural Population in Germany Divided According to Its Position in the Economy
The “Unity” Conference of RSDLP Organisations Abroad September 21-22 (October 4-5), 1901 1. Speech Delivered On September 21 (October 4). (Note From The Minutes) 2. Questions Submitted to the Union of Russian Social-Democrats Abroad at the "Unity" Conference, September 21 (October 4), 1901
Fighting the Famine-Stricken
A Reply to the St. Petersburg Committee
Party Affairs Abroad
Penal Servitude Regulations and Penal Servitude Sentences
Review of Home Affairs I. Famine. II. Attitude Towards the Crisis and the Famine. III. The Third Element. IV. Two Speeches by Marshals of the Nobility.
Preface to the Pamphlet Documents of the “Unity” Conference
The Protest of the Finnish People
The Journal Svoboda
A Talk With Defenders of Economism
On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Revolutionary Activity of G. V. Plekhanov
Demonstrations Have Begun
On a Letter from “Southern Workers”
Anarchism and Socialism (1901)

1902

Concerning the State Budget
Political Agitation and “The Class Point of View”
Reply to “A Reader”
What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement. Preface I. Dogmatism and “Freedom of Criticism” (A). What Does “Freedom of Criticism” Mean? (B). The New Advocates of “Freedom of Criticism” (C). Criticism in Russia (D). Engels on the Importance of the Theoretical Struggle II. The Spontaneity of the Masses and the Consciousness of the Social-Democrats (A). The Beginning of the Spontaneous Upsurge (B). Bowing to Spontaneity. Rabochaya Mysl (C). The Self-Emancipation Group and Rabocheye Dyelo III. Trade-Unionist Politics and Social-Democratic Politics (A). Political Agitation and Its Restriction by the Economists (B). How Martynov Rendered Plekhanov More Profound (C). Political Exposures and “Training in Revolutionary Activity” (D). What Is There in Common Between Economism and Terrorism? (E). The Working Class as Vanguard Fighter for Democracy (F). Once More “Slanderers”, Once More “Mystifiers” IV. The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organisation of the Revolutionaries (A). What Is Primitiveness? (B). Primitiveness and Economism (C). Organisation of Workers and Organisation of Revolutionaries (D). The Scope of Organisational Work (E). “Conspiratorial” Organisation and “Democratism” (F). Local and All-Russian Work V. The “Plan” for an All-Russian Political Newspaper (A). Who Was Offended by the Article “Where To Begin” (B). Can a Newspaper Be a Collective Organiser? (C). What Type of Organisation Do We Require? Conclusion Appendix. The Attempt to Unite Iskra with Rabocheye Dyelo Correction to What Is To Be Done?