LCW Vol. 24

Contents

172 chapters

• Title page
• Source and provenance
• Preface by Progress Publishers
• The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (a.k.a. the April Theses)
• How We Arrived
• Two Worlds
• Notes for an Article or Speech in Defence of the April Theses
• Blancism
• The Dual Power
• Letters on Tactics
• The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution
• THE CLASS CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTLON THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE
• THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT
• THE PECULIAR NATURE OF THE DUAL POWER AND ITS CLASS SIGNIFICANCE
• THE PECULIAR NATURE OF THE TACTICS WHICH FOLLOW FROM THE ABOVE
• REVOLUTIONARY DEFENCISM AND ITS CLASS SIGNIFICANCE
• HOW CAN THE WAR BE ENDED?
• A NEW TYPE OF STATE EMERGING FROM OUR REVOLUTION
• THE AGRARIAN AND NATIONAL PROGRAMMES
• NATIONALISATION OF THE BANKS AND CAPITALIST SYNDICATES
• THE SITUATION WITHIN THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL
• THE COLLAPSE OF THE ZIMMERWALD INTERNATIONAL.— THE NEED FOR FOUNDING A THIRD INTERNATIONAL
• WHAT SHOULD BE THE NAME OF OUR PARTY—ONE THAT WILL BE CORRECT SCIENTIFICALLY AND HELP TO CLARIFY THE MIND OF THE PROLETARIAT POLITICALLY?
• POSTSCRIPT
• Political Parties in Russia and the Tasks of the Proletariat
• Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Soldiers of the Izmailovsky Regiment April 10 (23), 1917
• A Shameless Lie of the Capitalists
• The War and the Provisional Government
• In the Footsteps of Russkaya Volya
• A Partnership of Lies
• Banks and Ministers
• An Important Exposure
• To the Soldiers and Sailors
• Against the Riot-Mongers
• Citizens! See What Methods the Capitalists of All Countries Are Using!
• A 'Voluntary Agreement' Between Landowners and Peasants?
• An Honest Voice in a Chorus of Slanderers
• The Soldiers and the Land
• The Petrograd City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks)
• Report on the Present Situation And the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government April 14 (27)
• Concluding Remarks In The Debate Concerning The Report On The Present Situation April 14 (27))
• Two Remarks During the Debate On the Resolution Concerning the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government April 15 (28)
• Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government
• Two Remarks During the Debate On the Question of the Municipal Elections
• Resolution on the Municipal Question
• Draft Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Parties of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Menshevik Social-Democrats, the 'Non-Faction' Social-Democrats and other Kindred Political Trends
• Draft Resolution on the War
• Congress of Peasants' Deputies
• On the Return of the Emigrants
• Our Views
• How They Tied Themselves to the Capitalists
• A Proletarian Militia
• Bankruptcy?
• Resolution of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) of April 20 (May 3), 1917 on the Crisis Caused by the Provisional Government's Note of April 18 (May 1), 1917
• Appeal to the Soldiers of All the Belligerent Countries
• The Provisional Government's Note
• A Basic Question
• Icons Versus Cannons, Phrases Versus Capital
• The Logic of Citizen V. Chernov
• Mr. Plekhanov's Futile Attempts to Extricate Himself
• Resolution of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) Adopted April 21 (May 4), 1917
• Honest Defencism Reveals Itself
• Mad Capitalists or Weak-Minded Social-Democrats?
• The Advice or Order of Shingaryov, and the Advice of a Local Soviet
• Resolution of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) Adopted in the Morning of April 22 (May 5), 1917
• Lessons of the Crisis
• How a Simple Question Can Be Confused
• 'Disgrace' as the Capitalists and the Proletarians Understand It
• Interview Given to E. Torniainen April 23 (May 6), 1917
• Foolish Gloating
• The Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.)
• Speech Delivered at the Opening of the Conference April 24 (May 7)
• Report on the Current Situation April 24 (May 7)
• Speech Winding Up The Debate on the Report on the Current Situation April 24 (May 7)
• Speech on the Proposal to Call an International Socialist Conference April 25 (May 8)
• Resolution On Borgbjerg's Proposal
• Speech on the Attitude Towards the Soviets April 25 (May 8)
• Draft Theses to the Resolution on the Soviets
• Speech in Favour of the Resolution on the War April 27 (May 10)
• Resolution on the War
• Resolution on the Attitude Towards the Provisional Government
• Report on the Question of Revising the Party Programme April 28 (May 11)
• Resolution on the Question of Revising the Party Programme
• Report on the Agrarian Question April 28 (May 11)
• Rejoinder to N. S. Angarsky During the Debate on the Agrarian Question April 28 (May 11)
• Resolution on the Agrarian Question
• Resolution on Uniting the Internationalists Against the Petty-Bourgeois Defencist Bloc
• Resolution on the Soviets of Workers' And Soldiers' Deputies
• Speech on the National Question April 29 (May 12)
• Resolution on the National Question
• Speech on the Situation within the International and the Tasks of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.) April 29 (May 12)
• Speech in Favour of the Resolution on the Current Situation April 29 (May 12)
• Resolution on the Current Situation
• Concluding Speech at the Closing of the Conference April 29 (May 12)
• Introduction to the Resolutions of the Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.)
• The Significance of Fraternisation
• What the Counter-Revolutionary Steps of the Provisional Government Lead To
• Social-Chauvinists and Internationalists
• I. G. Tsereteli and the Class Struggle
• Anxiety
• The 'Crisis of Power'
• Finland and Russia
• A Letter to the Editors (May 15, 1917)
• Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases
• An Unfortunate Document
• Frightening the People with Bourgeois Terrors
• On the Eve
• They Have Forgotten the Main Thing
• Mandate to Deputies of the Soviet Elected at Factories and Regiments
• Class Collaboration With Capital, or Class Struggle Against Capital?
• A Strong Revolutionary Government
• Titbits for the 'Newborn' Government
• Already the 'New' Government is Lagging Behind Even the Peasant Mass, Leave Alone the Revolutionary Workers
• Stealing a March on the Workers
• An Open Letter to the Delegates to the All-Russia Congress of Peasants' Deputies
• The 'Virtual Armistice'
• Secrets of Foreign Policy
• One of the Secret Treaties
• Ministerial Tone
• In Search of a Napoleon
• Nothing Has Changed
• A Regrettable Deviation From the Principles of Democracy
• On the Question of Convening an International, So-Called Socialist Conference Jointly with the Social-Chauvinists
• Speech at a Meeting at the Putilov Works May 12 (25), 1917
• The Proletarian Party at the District Council Elections
• Statements About the War Made By Our Party Before the Revolution
• Impending Debacle
• War and Revolution
• Despicable Methods
• Inevitable Catastrophe and Extravagant Promises
• The Question of Uniting the Internationalists
• Muddleheadedness
• Combating Economic Chaos By a Spate of Commissions
• One More Departure From Democratic Principles
• How the Capitalists Are Trying to Scare the People
• One More Crime of the Capitalists
• Still More Lies
• A Letter to the Editors (May 18, 1917)
• Has Dual Power Disappeared?
• On the 'Unauthorised Seizure' of Land
• Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme
• Preface to the Pamphlet Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme
• Proposed Amendments to the Doctrinal, Political and Other Sections of the Programme
• Comments on the Remarks Made by the Committee of the April All-Russia Conference
• Draft of Revised Programme
• First All-Russian Congress of Peasants' Deputies
• Draft Resolution on the Agrarian Question
• Speech on the Agrarian Question May 22 (June 4), 1917
• Parties in the Petrograd District Council Elections
• Two Shortcomings
• Resolution on Measures to Cope with Economic Disorganisation
• A Deal With the Capitalists or Overthrow of the Capitalists?
• The Chain Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Link
• The Capitalists Must Be Exposed
• Reports on the Economic Debacle
• 'Sleight of Hand' and Unprincipled Politicians
• The Dark Forces Are For the Cadets, the Mensheviks and Narodniks Are in One Government With the Cadets
• The Shameful Menshevik-Narodnik Bloc with Yedinstvo
• Counter-Revolution Takes the Offensive
• A Question of Principle
• For Lack of a Clean Principled Weapon They Snatch at a Dirty One
• Meeting of the Petrograd Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks)
• The Harm of Phrase-Mongering
• Capitalist Mockery of the People
• Letter to the District Committees of the Petrograd Organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks)
• Speech Made at the First Petrograd Conference of Shop Committees May 31 (June 13), 1917
• Infamy Justified
• The Petty-Bourgeois Stand on the Question of Economic Disorganisation
• A Mote in the Eye
• It Is Undemocratic, Citizen Kerensky!
• Bolshevism and 'Demoralisation' of the Army
• The Laugh Is On You!