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Note on the Necessity of Signing the Peace Treaty
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 27, 1972, page 57
Not to conclude peace at the present moment means declaring an armed uprising or a revolutionary war against German imperialism. This is either phrase-making or a provocation by the Russian bourgeoisie, which is thirsting for the arrival of the Germans. In reality we cannot fight at the present time, for the army is against the war and is unable to fight. The week of war against the Germans, infaceof whom our troops simply ran away, from February 18 to 24, 1918, has fully proved this. We are prisoners of German imperialism. Not empty phrases about an immediate armed uprising against the Germans, but the systematic, serious, steady work of preparing a revolutionary war, the creation of discipline and an army, the putting into order of the railways and food affairs. That is the point of view of the majority of the CEC, including Lenin (and the majority of the CC, Bolsheviks), and of Spiridonova and Malkin (the minority of the CC, Left Socialist-Revolutionaries).