Lenin Collected Works/Volume 7

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Preface by Progress Publishers

This seventh volume of Lenin's works covers the period from September 1903 to December 1904.

The major item in it is his book, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, which elaborated the organisational principles of the Bolshevik Party.

Many of the works in the present volume—the “Account of the Second Congress of the RSDLP", the article “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Reply by N. Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg”, the speeches at the Congress of the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy Abroad and the sessions of the Party Council, and the resolutions moved there, the draft appeal “To the Party”, and the pamphlet “The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra's Plan"—are directed against the Mensheviks' opportunism in organisational and tactical questions and against their splitting activities.

The letters included in this volume—"Letter to the Members of the Central Committee”, “To Five Members of the Central Committee”, “Letter to Central Committee Agents and Committee Members of the RSDLP Siding with the Second Party Congress Majority” and the “Letter to Glebov (V. A. Noskov)"—illustrate Lenin's fight against the conciliators.

"What We Are Working For”, “To the Party”, “A Letter to the Comrades”, and the “Announcement of the Formation of an Organising Committee and the Convening of the Third Regular Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party” show how Lenin directed the preparations for the Third Party Congress and the establishment of the Bureau of Majority Committees and the Bolshevik newspaper Vperyod.

The following documents published in this volume are included in the Collected Works for the first time: the “Statement Concerning Martov's Report”, the letter “To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the RSDLP" concerning Lenin's resignation from the editorial board of Iskra, the draft resolution moved in the Party Council on the convening of the Third Party Congress, and Lenin's fourth speech there on the publication of Party literature, and the “Announcement of the Formation of a Bureau of Majority Committees”.

 

1903

Account of the Second Congress of the RSDLP	15
Foiled!	35
Plan of Letters on Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth	41
The Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth First Letter.	43
Second Party Congress Plan of Article.	57
Maximum Brazenness and Minimum Logic	59
Draft of a Letter from the Central Committee and the Editorial Board of the Central Organ to the Members of the Opposition	66
Second Congress of the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy Abroad October 13-18 (26-31), 1903 Prefatory Remarks to the Report on the Second Congress of the RSDLP, October 13 (26) Report on the Second Congress of the RSDLP, October 14 (27) Statement Concerning Martov's Report, October 15 (28) Speech on the Rules of the League, October 17 (30)	69
An Unsubmitted Statement	86
Statement of Resignation from the Party Council and from the Editorial Board of the Central Organ	91
The Position of the Bund in the Party	92
The Narodnik-Like Bourgeoisie and Distraught Narodism	104
To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the RSDLP	113
An Unissued Statement	114
Letter to Iskra	115
Why I Resigned from the Iskra Editorial Board A Letter to the Editors of "Iskra"	119
Letter from the Central Committee of the RSDLP to the Administration of the League Abroad, the Party Aid Groups, and to All Party Members Abroad	126
Note on the Position of the New Iskra	130

1904

Preface to the Pamphlet A Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks	132
Postscript to the Pamphlet A Letter to a Comrade On Our Organisational Tasks	134
To the Party Membership	140
Session of the Council of the RSDLP January 15-17 (28-30), 1904 Draft Resolution on Measures to Restore Peace in the Party, Moved on January 15 (28) Dissenting Opinion Recorded by the Representatives of the Central Committee. January 17 (30) Draft Resolution on Convening the Third Party Congress, January 17 (30) Draft Resolutions Moved on January 17 (30) Speeches on Measures to Restore Peace in the Party. January 15 (28) Speeches on Measures to Restore Peace in the Party, January 16 (29) Speeches on Convening the Third Party Congress, January 17 (30) Speeches on the Publication of Party Literature, January 17 (30)	145
To the Party (February 1904)	188
Circumstances of Resignation from the Iskra Editorial Board	193
May Day	199
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (The Crisis in Our Party) Preface A. The Preparations for the Congress B. Significance of the Various Groupings at the Congress C. Beginning of the Congress. The Organising Committee Incident D. Dissolution of the Yuzhny Rabochi Group E. The Equality of Languages Incident F. The Agrarian Programme G. The Party Rules. Comrade Martov's Draft H. Discussion on Centralism Prior to the Split Among the Iskra-ists I. Paragraph One of the Rules J. Innocent Victims of a False Accusation of Opportunism K. Continuation of the Debate on the Rules. Composition of the Council L. Conclusion of the Debate on the Rules. Co-optation to the Central Bodies. Withdrawal of the Rabocheye Dyelo Delegates M. The Elections. End of the Congress N. General Picture of the Struggle at the Congress. The Revolutionary and Opportunist Wings of the Party O. After the Congress. Two Methods of Struggle P. Little Annoyances Should Not Stand in the Way of a Big Pleasure Q. The New Iskra. Opportunism in Questions of Organisation R. A Few Words on Dialectics. Two Revolutions Appendix. The Incident of Comrade Gusev and Comrade Deutsch	203
Letter to the Members of the Central Committee	426
Statement by Three Members of the Central Committee	430
To the Party (May 1904)	432
Session of the Council of the RSDLP May 31 (June 13) and June 5 (18), 1904 Speeches Concerning an Inter-Party Conference, May 31 (June 13) Speeches on Co-Optation to the Committees and the Right of the Central Committee to Appoint New Members to Them, June 5 (18) Speech on the Newspaper Rassvet, June 5 (18)	435
What We Are Working For (To the Party)	445
To the Party (August 1904)	454
To Five Members of the Central Committee For Russia.	462
Letter to Central Committee Agents and Committee Members of the RSDLP Siding with the Second Party Congress Majority	464
Letter to Glebov (V. A. Noskov)	466
(Reply by N. Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg) One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	474
An Obliging Liberal	475
Preface to N. Shakhov’s Pamphlet The Fight for a Congress	490
Announcement of the Formation of a Bureau of Majority Committees Draft	491
The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra's Plan	497
Outline of a Talk on the Situation Within the Party	519
A Letter to the Comrades (With Reference to the Forthcoming Publication of the Organ of the Party Majority)	523
Statement and Documents on the Break of the Central Institutions with the Party	529
Announcement of the Formation of an Organising Committee and the Convening of the Third Regular Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party	540