Collected Works of VI Lenin
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W O R K E R S O F A L L C O U N T R I E S , U N I T E! L E N I N COLLECTED WORKS 12 A THE RUSSIAN EDITION WAS PRINTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A DECISION OF THE NINTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.) AND THE SECOND CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF THE U.S.S.R. ИНCTИTУT МАРÇCИзМА — ЛЕНИНИзМА пpи ЦK KНCC B. n. l d H n H С О Ч И Н E Н И Я И з д a н u е ч е m в е p m o e ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ M О С К В А V. I. L E N I N cOLLEcTED WORKS VOLUME 12 ?anuary – ?une 190B PROGRESS PUBLISHERS MOSCOW TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY GEORGE HANNA EDITED BY JULlUS KATZER From Marx to Mao M L © Digital Reprints 2010 www.marx2mao.com First printing 1962 Second printing 1965 Third printing 1972 Fourth printing 1977 Printed in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 10102–n84 l 5n–77 014(01)–77 7 CONTENTS Preface ........................ 13 1907 THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN ST. PETERS- BURG ......................... 15 DESCENDING RUNG BY RUNG ............... 24 THE PROTEST OF THE THIRTY-ONE MENSHEVIKS ....... 29 THE ST. PETERSBURG ELECTIONS AND THE HYPOCRISY OF THE THIRTY-ONE MENSHEVIKS ................ 33 HOW TO VOTE IN THE ST. PETERSBURG ELECTIONS. Is There a Danger of the Black Hundreds Winning the St. Petersburg Elec- tions? ........................ 45 THE ST. PETERSBURG ELECTIONS AND THE CRISIS OF OPPORTU- NISM ......................... 57 THE ELECTIONS IN THE WORKER CURIA IN ST. PETERSBURG .. 62 THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN S.D.’s AND S.R.’s IN THE ELECTIONS IN THE WORKER CURIA IN ST. PETERSBURG .......... 70 HOW TO VOTE IN THE ST. PETERSBURG ELECTIONS. Who Benefits from the Fables About the Black-Hundred Danger? ...... 75 THE MOSCOW ELECTIONS—PRELIMINARY RESULTS ...... 81 A POLITICAL LIDVALIAD ................. 83 THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS IN THE WORKER CURIA IN ST. PETERSBURG .................... 86 ON THE REPORT OF THE MOSCOW DISTRICT OF ST. PETERSBURG CONCERNING THE ELECTIONS TO THE SECOND DUMA ..... 93 8 CONTENTS SOME FIGURES ON THE ELECTIONS IN THE WORKER CURIA IN SOUTH RUSSIA ..................... 95 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ST. PETERSBURG ELECTIONS .... 98 PREFACE TO THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF KARL MARX’S LETTERS TO Dr. KUGELMANN ............... 104 THE SECOND DUMA AND THE SECOND REVOLUTIONARY WAVE 113 THE ELECTION RESULTS IN ST. PETERSBURG ........ 119 REPORT TO THE CONFERENCE OF THE ST. PETERSBURG ORGANI- SATION ON THE QUESTION OF THE DUMA CAMPAIGN AND DUMA TACTICS. Brief Newspaper Report ............. 127 Concluding Speech ................. 131 DRAFT RESOLUTIONS FOR THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.S.D.L.P ....................... 133 1. The Present Stage in the Democratic Revolution .... 135 2. The Attitude to the Bourgeois Parties ........ 136 3. The Class Tasks of the Proletariat at the Present Stage of the Democratic Revolution ............. 138 4. The Tactics of the Social-Democrats in the State Duma 140 5. The Intensification of Mass Destitution and of the Econom- ic Struggle ................... 142 6. Non-Party Workers’ Organisations and the Anarcho-Syndi- calist Trend Among the Proletariat ......... 142 TACTICS OF THE R.S.D.L.P. IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN. Inter- view Granted to a Special Correspondent of “L’Humanité” on Feb- ruary 17 (March 2), 1907 ................ 145 THE OPENING OF THE SECOND STATE DUMA ......... 152 THE SECOND DUMA AND THE TASKS OF THE PROLETARIAT ... 156 THE FIRST IMPORTANT STEP ............... 161 PETTY-BOURGEOIS TACTICS ................ 165 WHAT THE SPLITTERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE COMING SPLIT 170 ON THE TACTICS OF OPPORTUNISM ............ 173 THE BOLSHEVIKS AND THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE ....... 179 CONTENTS 9 THE IMMINENT DISSOLUTION OF THE DUMA AND QUESTIONS OF TACTICS ....................... 184 CADETS AND TRUDOVIKS ................. 189 APROPOS OF STOLYPIN’S DECLARATION. Draft Manifesto .... 193 THE ELECTIONS TO THE DUMA AND THE TACTICS OF THE RUS- SIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS ................. 196 THE PLATFORM OF REVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY ... 208 I ........................ 208 II ........................ 213 HOW NOT TO WRITEFROM RESOLUTIONS .............MARX 219 Instead of an AfterwordTO............... MAO 240 A NOTE ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE ESTONIAN SOCIAL-DEMO- CRATS ........................ 243 THE TERMS OF THE DEAL ................ 244 THE MENSHEVIK TACTICAL PLATFORM ........... 249 DRAFT FOR A SPEECH ON THE AGRARIAN QUESTION IN THE SECOND STATE DUMA .................. 267 FINE WORDS—FOUL DEEDSNOT................ FOR 300 THE DUMA AND THE APPROVAL OF THE BUDGET ....... 306 THE CUCKOO PRAISESCOMMERCIAL THE ROOSTER ............ 312 INTELLECTUALIST WARRIORS AGAINST DOMINATION BY THE INTELLIGENTSIADISTRIBUTION.................... 316 ANGRY EMBARRASSMENT. The Question of the Labour Congress 320 THE AGRARIAN QUESTION AND THE FORCES OF THE REVOLUTION 333 AN ANAEMIC DUMA OR AN ANAEMIC PETTY BOURGEOISIE ... 337 BANALITY TRIUMPHANT, OR S.R’s APE THE CADETS ..... 341 THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC GROUP AND APRIL 3 IN THE DUMA .. 345 THE STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 349 I ........................ 349 II ........................ 353 10 CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF LETTERS BY JOHANNES BECKER, JOSEPH DIETZGEN, FREDERICK ENGELS, KARL MARX, AND OTHERS TO FRIEDRICH SORGE AND OTHERS ................. 359 How the Classics Estimated Intellectualist Opportunism in Social-Democracy .................. 371 THE DUMA AND THE RUSSIAN LIBERALS .......... 379 FRANZ MEHRING ON THE SECOND DUMA ........... 383 German Liberalism and the Russian Duma ........ 384 LARIN AND KHRUSTALEV ................. 390 REORGANISATION AND THE END OF THE SPLIT IN ST. PETERS- BURG......................... 395 ON THE QUESTION OF A NATION-WIDE REVOLUTION ...... 404 APROPOS OF THE MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER MILITARY AND COMBAT CONFERENCE OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY..................... 409 REPORT TO THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.S.D.L.P. ON THE ST. PETERSBURG SPLIT AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE PARTY TRI- BUNAL ENSUING THEREFROM ............... 419 I. Speech for the Defence (or for the Prosecution of the Menshevik Section of the Central Committee) Delivered it the Party Tribunal ................ 421 II. A Brief Summary of the Real History of the St. Peters- burg Split .................... 432 THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.S.D.L.P. April 30-May 19 (May 13-June 1), 1907 .................. 437 1. SPEECH DURING THE DISCUSSION ON THE CONGRESS AGENDA, MAY 2 (15) ................ 439 2. SPEECH ON THE REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, MAY 4 (17) .......... 442 3. SPEECH ON THE REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DUMA GROUP, MAY 8 (21) ................. 448 4. STATEMENT OF FACT, MAY 10 (23) .......... 453 5. STATEMENT OF MAY 11 (24) ............. 455 6. SPEECH ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOURGEOIS PARTIES, MAY 12 (25) ................... 456 CONTENTS 11 7. CONCLUDING REMARKS ON THE REPORT ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOURGEOIS PARTIES, MAY 14 (27) ....... 469 8. SPEECH ON THE ATTITUDE TO THE POLISH DRAFT RESOLU- TION ON BOURGEOIS PARTIES, MAY 15 (28) ....... 475 9. OBJECTIONS TO TROTSKY’S AMENDMENTS TO THE BOLSHE- VIK RESOLUTION ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOURGEOIS PARTIES, ADOPTED BY THE CONGRESS. MAY 15-16 (28-29) 479 10. OBJECTIONS TO MARTOV’S AMENDMENTS TO THE BOLSHEVIK RESOLUTION ON THE ATTITUDE TO BOURGEOIS PARTIES, MAY 16 (29) ................... 480 11. OBJECTIONS TO MARTYNOV’S AMENDMENTS TO THE RESO- LUTION ON THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOURGEOIS PARTIES, MAY 16 (29) ................... 482 12. REPORT OF THE COMMISSION FORMED TO DRAFT A RESOLU- TION ON THE STATE DUMA, MAY 18 (31) ........ 484 13. REMARKS DURING THE DISCUSSION ON THE RE-VOTING OF THOSE ELECTED TO THE C.C., MAY 19 (JUNE 1) ..... 488 ATTITUDE TOWARDS BOURGEOIS PARTIES .......... 489 I ........................ 490 II ........................ 500 III ........................ 506 Notes ......................... 511 The Life and Work of V. I. Lenin. Chronology ....... 555 I L L U S T R A T I O N S First page of the newspaper Zreniye, No. 1, 1907 ....... 47 First page of the newspaper Rabochy, No. 2, 1907 ...... 157 Facsimile of the first page of Lenin’s manuscript “Draft for a Speech on the Agrarian Question in the Second State Duma”, 1907 ......................... 265 First page of the newspaper Nashe Ekho, No. 2, 1907 ..... 307 13 PREFACE Volume Twelve contains Lenin’s writings for the period January-June 1907. A number of the works included in this volume deal with the revolutionary tactics of the R.S.D.L.P. at the time of the Second State Duma election campaign—the defence of the Left bloc and the struggle against the Menshevik policy of collaboration with the Constitutional-Democrats (the Ca- dets). Among these writings are: “The Social-Democratic Election Campaign in St. Petersburg”, “How To Vote in the St. Petersburg Elections (Who Benefits from the Fables About the Black-Hundred Danger?)”, “The Second Duma and the Second Revolutionary Wave”, “On the Tactics of Opportunism”, “The Bolsheviks and the Petty Bourgeoisie”, “The Elections to the Duma and the Tactics of the Russian Social-Democrats”, “The Imminent Dissolution of the Duma and Questions of Tactics”, and others. There are also documents and articles by Lenin on prep- arations for the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. and the reports and speeches he made at the Congress—“Draft Res- olutions for the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.”, the ar- ticles “The Platform of Revolutionary Social-Democracy”, “Report to the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. on the St. Petersburg Split and the Institution of the Party Tribunal Ensuing Therefrom”, “Speech on the Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties”, and other speeches. Lenin’s “Report to the Conference of the St. Petersburg Organisation on the Question of the Duma Campaign and Duma Tactics”, and the articles “What the Splitters Have To Say About the Coming Split”, “Reorganisation and the End of the Split in St. Petersburg”, provide a picture of his 14 PREFACE struggle for an ideological consolidation of the St. Peters- burg organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. on Bolshevik principles. Lenin’s “Preface to the Russian Translation of Karl Marx’s Letters to Dr.