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Preface to this Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI

Preface to Volume One . . . . . . . . . . . . XV

Author’s Preface to Volume One . . . . . . . . . XVII

1901-07

FROM THE EDITORS . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS IMMEDIATE TASKS . . . . . . . . . . . 9

THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF THE NATIONALQUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

A LETTER FROM KUTAIS . . . . . . . . . . 55

A LETTER FROM KUTAIS (From the Same Comrade) . . 59

THE PROLETARIAN CLASS AND THE PROLETARIANPARTY (Concerning Paragraph One of the Party Rules) 63

WORKERS OF THE CAUCASUS, IT IS TIME TO TAKEREVENGE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY! . . . 82

TO CITIZENS. LONG LIVE THE RED FLAG! . . . . 85

CONTENTSVIII

BRIEFLY ABOUT THE DISAGREEMENTS IN THEPARTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

ARMED INSURRECTION AND OUR TACTICS . . 133

THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENTAND SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY . . . . . . . . . 140

A REPLY TO SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT . . . . . . . 162

REACTION IS GROWING . . . . . . . . . . . 175

THE BOURGEOISIE IS LAYING A TRAP . . . . . 181

CITIZENS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

TO ALL THE WORKERS . . . . . . . . . . . 191

TIFLIS, NOVEMBER 20, 1905 . . . . . . . . . 195

TWO CLASHES (Concerning January 9) . . . . . . . 198

THE STATE DUMA AND THE TACTICS OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

THE AGRARIAN QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . 216

CONCERNING THE AGRARIAN QUESTION . . . . 232

CONCERNING THE REVISION OF THE AGRARIANPROGRAMME (Speech Delivered at the Seventh Sittingof the Fourth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., April 13(26), 1906) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

ON THE PRESENT SITUATION (Speech Delivered at theFifteenth Sitting of the Fourth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.,April 17 (30), 1906) . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

MARX AND ENGELS ON INSURRECTION . . . . . 243

INTERNATIONAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION . . . . 249

THE PRESENT SITUATION AND THE UNITY CONGRESSOF THE WORKERS’ PARTY . . . . . . . . 252

THE CLASS STRUGGLE . . . . . . . . . . . 280

CONTENTS IX

“FACTORY LEGISLATION” AND THE PROLETARIANSTRUGGLE (Concerning the Two Laws of November 15) 289

ANARCHISM OR SOCIALISM? . . . . . . . . . 297

I The Dialectical Method . . . . . . . . . 300

II The Materialist Theory . . . . . . . . . 313

III Proletarian Socialism. . . . . . . . . . 331

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

A n a r c h i s m o r S o c i a l i s m? . . . . . . . . . —

Dialectical Materialism . . . . . . . . . . . —

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

Biographical Chronicle (1879-1906) . . . . . . . . 415


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1907

PREFACE TO THE GEORGIAN EDITION OF K. KAUT-SKY’S PAMPHLET THE DRIVING FORCES ANDPROSPECTS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1

THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN ST. PETERSBURG ANDTHE MENSHEVIKS . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

THE AUTOCRACY OF THE CADETS OR THE SOVER-EIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE? . . . . . . . . . . 21

THE PROLETARIAT IS FIGHTING, THE BOURGEOI-SIE IS CONCLUDING AN ALLIANCE WITH THEGOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

COMRADE G. TELIA. In Memoriam . . . . . . . 28

THE ADVANCED PROLETARIAT AND THE FIFTHPARTY CONGRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

MUDDLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

OUR CAUCASIAN CLOWNS . . . . . . . . . . . 39

THE DISPERSION OF THE DUMA AND THE TASKSOF THE PROLETARIAT . . . . . . . . . . 42

THE LONDON CONGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY (Notes of a Dele-gate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47I. The Composition of the Congress . . . . . . 49

II. The Agenda. Report of the Central CommitteeReport of the Group in the Duma . . . . . . 53

III. The Non-Proletarian Parties . . . . . . . . 61IV. The Labour Congress . . . . . . . . . . 70

CONTENTSVIII

MANDATE TO THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEPUTIESIN THE THIRD STATE DUMA, Adopted at a Meetingof the Delegates of the Workers’ Curia in the City of Baku,September 22, 1907 . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

BOYCOTT THE CONFERENCE! . . . . . . . . . 84

1908

BEFORE THE ELECTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . 90

MORE ABOUT A CONFERENCE WITH GUARANTEES 95

WHAT DO OUR RECENT STRIKES TELL US? . . . 101

THE CHANGE IN THE OIL OWNERS’ TACTICS . . . 105

WE MUST PREPARE! . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

ECONOMIC TERRORISM AND THE LABOUR MOVE-MENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

THE OIL OWNERS ON ECONOMIC TERRORISM . . 117

THE PRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Flunkey “Socialists”. . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Hypocritical Zubatovites . . . . . . . . . . . 134

1909

THE CONFERENCE AND THE WORKERS . . . . . 138

THE PARTY CRISIS AND OUR TASKS . . . . . 150

THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL STRIKE . . . . 163

PARTY NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Resolution of the Baku Committee on the Disagree-ments on the Enlarged Editorial Board of Proletary 170

THE DECEMBER STRIKE AND THE DECEMBERAGREEMENT (On the Occasion of the Fifth Anniversary) 174

1910

LETTERS FROM THE CAUCASUS . . . . . . . . 179I. Baku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

The Situation in the Oil Industry . . . . . . 179Local Government in the Oil Fields . . . . . 182The State of the Organisation . . . . . . . . 186“Legal Possibilities” . . . . . . . . . . . 188

CONTENTS IX

II. Tiflis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193Programmatic Liquidationism . . . . . . 194Tactical Liquidationism . . . . . . . . 198

RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE BAKU COMMITTEEON JANUARY 22, 1910 (For the Forthcoming GeneralParty Conference) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202I. Political Agitation and the Actual Consolidation

of the Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202II. Representation at the Forthcoming General Party

Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

AUGUST BEBEL, LEADER OF THE GERMANWORKERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

A LETTER TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THEPARTY FROM EXILE IN SOLVYCHEGODSK . . 215

1912

FOR THE PARTY! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

LONG LIVE THE FIRST OF MAY ! . . . . . . . 225

A NEW PERIOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

LIBERAL HYPOCRITES . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

NON-PARTY SIMPLETONS . . . . . . . . . . . 235

LIFE TRIUMPHS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

THEY ARE WORKING WELL . . . . . . . . . . 241

THE ICE HAS BROKEN! . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

HOW THEY ARE PREPARING FOR THE ELECTIONS 246

DEDUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

OUR AIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

MANDATE OF THE ST. PETERSBURG WORKERS TOTHEIR LABOUR DEPUTY . . . . . . . . 257

THE WILL OF THE VOTERS’ DELEGATES . . . . 260

THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS IN THE WORK-ERS’ CURIA OF ST. PETERSBURG . . . . . 2631. The Election of the Voters’ Delegates . . . . . 2632. The Election of Electors . . . . . . . . . . 264

CONTENTSX

3. Two Unities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2654. The Election of the Duma Deputy . . . . . 267

TODAY IS ELECTION DAY . . . . . . . . . . . 269

1913

TO ALL THE WORKING MEN AND WORKING WOMENOF RUSSIA! January 9 . . . . . . . . . . 273

THE ELECTIONS IN ST. PETERSBURG (A Letter FromSt. Petersburg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

I. The Workers’ Curia . . . . . . . . . . 2801. The Fight for Elections . . . . . . . . . 2802. The Deputy’s Mandate . . . . . . . . . 2823. Unity as a Mask, and the Election of the

Duma Deputy . . . . . . . . . . . . 285II. The City Curia . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

III. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

ON THE ROAD TO NATIONALISM (A Letter From the Cau-casus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

MARXISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION . . . 300I. The Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303

II. The National Movement . . . . . . . . . 313III. Presentation of the Question . . . . . . . 323IV. Cultural-National Autonomy . . . . . . . . 331V. The Bund, Its Nationalism, Its Separatism . 344

VI. The Caucasians, the Conference of the Liqui- dators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359

VII. The National Question in Russia . . . . . . 373

THE SITUATION IN THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATICGROUP IN THE DUMA . . . . . . . . . 382

THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE LENA MASSACRE . . 387

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Biographical Chronicle (1907 to March 1917) . . . . . 422


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1917

THE SOVIETS OF WORKERS’ AND SOLDIERS’DEPUTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

THE WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

BIDDING FOR MINISTERIAL PORTFOLIOS . . . . 10

CONDITIONS FOR THE VICTORY OF THE RUSSIANREVOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

ABOLITION OF NATIONAL DISABILITIES . . . . . 17

EITHER—OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

AGAINST FEDERALISM. . . . . . . . . . . . 25

TWO RESOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

THE LAND TO THE PEASANTS . . . . . . . . 36

MAY DAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. Speech Deliveredat a Meeting in Vasilyevsky Ostrov, April 18 (May 1),1917. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

THE CONFERENCE IN THE MARIINSKY PALACE . 46

THE SEVENTH (APRIL) CONFERENCE OF THER.S.D.L.P (BOLSHEVIKS), April 24-29, 1917 . . 51

1. Speech in Support of Comrade Lenin’s Resolutionon the Current Situation, April 24 . . . . . . 51

CONTENTSVIII

2. Report on the National Question, April 29 . . 52

3. Reply to the Discussion on the National Question,April 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

LAGGING BEHIND THE REVOLUTION . . . . . 61

WHAT DID WE EXPECT FROM THE CONFERENCE? . 67

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN . . . . . 70

YESTERDAY AND TODAY (Crisis of the Revolution) . 84

AGAINST ISOLATED DEMONSTRATIONS . . . . . 92

RESULTS OF THE PETROGRAD MUNICIPAL ELEC-TIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

TO ALL THE TOILERS, TO ALL THE WORKERS ANDSOLDIERS OF PETROGRAD . . . . . . . . 101

AT THE DEMONSTRATION . . . . . . . . . . 105

CLOSE THE RANKS! . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

SPEECHES DELIVERED AT AN EMERGENCY CONFER-ENCE OF THE PETROGRAD ORGANIZATION OFTHE R.S.D.L.P. (BOLSHEVIKS), July 16-20, 1917 . 114

1. Report of the Central Committee on the JulyEvents, July 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

2. Report on the Current Situation, July 16 . . . 121

3. Replies to Written Questions, July 16 . . . . 129

4. Reply to the Discussion, July 16 . . . . . . 131

WHAT HAS HAPPENED? . . . . . . . . . . . 134

VICTORY OF THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION . . . . 138

THE VICTORY OF THE CADETS . . . . . . . . 142

TO ALL THE TOILERS, TO ALL THE WORKERS ANDSOLDIERS OF PETROGRAD . . . . . . . . 145

TWO CONFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

CONTENTS IX

THE NEW GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . 155

THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS . . . 158

SPEECHES DELIVERED AT THE SIXTH CONGRESSOF THE R.S.D.L.P. (BOLSHEVIKS), July 26-August3, 1917. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

l. Report of the Central Committee, July 27 . . . 166


3. Report on the Political Situation, July 30 . . . 182

4. Replies to Questions in Connection With theReport on the Political Situation, July 31 . . . 190


6. Reply to Preobrazhensky on Clause 9 of the Reso-lution “On the Political Situation,” August 3 . . . 199

WHAT DO THE CAPITALISTS WANT? . . . . . . 201

AGAINST THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE . . . . . 207

MORE ON THE SUBJECT OF STOCKHOLM. . . . . 211

WHITHER THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE? . . . . . 215

COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND THE PEOPLES OFRUSSIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

TWO COURSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

OUTCOME OF THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE . . . 231

THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR DEFEAT AT THE FRONT . 234

THE CAUSES OF THE JULY DEFEAT AT THE FRONT . 238

WHO REALLY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEFEATAT THE FRONT? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

AMERICAN BILLIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

THIS IS ELECTION DAY . . . . . . . . . . . 254

A PERIOD OF PROVOCATION . . . . . . . . . 260

DIVISION OF LABOUR IN THE “SOCIALIST-REVOLU-TIONARY” PARTY . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

CONTENTSX

YELLOW ALLIANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

EITHER—OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

WE DEMAND! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

THE CONSPIRACY CONTINUES . . . . . . . . 282

AGAINST COMPROMISE WITH THE BOURGEOISIE . 287

THE CRISIS AND THE DIRECTORY . . . . . . . 289

THEY WILL NOT SWERVE FROM THEIR PATH . . 293

THE BREAK WITH THE CADETS . . . . . . . . 296

THE SECOND WAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

FOREIGNERS AND THE KORNILOV CONSPIRACY . 308

THE DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE . . . . . . . 311

TWO LINES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

ALL POWER TO THE SOVIETS! . . . . . . . . 320

THE REVOLUTIONARY FRONT . . . . . . . . . 323

FORGING CHAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

A GOVERNMENT OF BOURGEOIS DICTATORSHIP . 332

COMMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336

The Railway Strike and the Democratic Bankrupts 336

The Russian Peasants and the Party of Numskulls 338

CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE WORKERS . . . . . . 340

YOU WILL WAIT IN VAIN! . . . . . . . . . . 343

COMMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

The Party of “Indeterminates” and the Russian Sol-diers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

Conspirators in Power . . . . . . . . . . . 349

CONTENTS XI

A PAPER COALITION . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

COMMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

Starvation in the Countryside . . . . . . . . . 354

Starvation in the Factories . . . . . . . . . . 355

SELF-CHASTISEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

THE PLOT AGAINST THE REVOLUTION . . . . . 361

WHO IS TORPEDOING THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY? 383

THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS MOBILIZING—PRE-PARE TO RESIST! . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

WHO NEEDS THE PRE-PARLIAMENT? . . . . . 389

SOVIET POWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392

A STUDY IN BRAZENNESS . . . . . . . . . . 397

BLACKLEGS OF THE REVOLUTION . . . . . . 401

SPEECH AT A MEETING OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,October 16, 1917 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

“STRONG BULLS OF BASHAN HAVE BESET ME ROUND” 409

WHAT DO WE NEED? . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Biographical Chronicle (March-October 1917) . . . . 440


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1917

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE CONGRESS OF THEFINNISH SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY,HELSINGFORS, November 14, 1917. . . . . . . 1

REPLY TO UKRAINIAN COMRADES IN THE REARAND AT THE FRONT . . . . . . . . . . . 6

THE UKRAINIAN RADA. Speech Delivered in the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, December 14, 1917 16

WHAT IS THE UKRAINIAN RADA? . . . . . . . 20

THE INDEPENDENCE OF FINLAND. Speech Delivered inthe All-Russian Central Executive Committee, December22, 1917 (Newspaper Report) . . . . . . . . . 23

“TURKISH ARMENIA” . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

1918

SPEECH AT THE MEETING OF THE CENTRAL COMMIT-TEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.(B.) ON THE QUESTIONOF PEACE WITH THE GERMANS, January 11,1918 (Summary Record in the Minutes) . . . . . 28

THE KIEV BOURGEOIS RADA . . . . . . . . . 29

CONTENTSVIII

SPEECHES DELIVERED AT THE THIRD ALL-RUS-SIAN CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF WORKERS’,SOLDIERS’ AND PEASANTS’ DEPUTIES, January10-18, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

1. Report on the National Question, January 15(Newspaper report) . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2. Draft Resolution on the Federal Institutions ofthe Russian Republic . . . . . . . . . . 33

3. Reply to the Discussion on the Report on theNational Question, January 15 (Newspaper Report) 34

TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO THE PETROGRAD COM-MITTEE, R.S.D.L.P.(B.), February 21, 1918 . . . 39

TELEGRAM TO THE PEOPLE’S SECRETARIAT,UKRAINIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC, February 21,1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

NOTE SENT BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE PEOPLE’SSECRETARIAT, UKRAINIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC,February 24, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

THE UKRAINIAN KNOT . . . . . . . . . . . 46

A TATAR-BASHKIR SOVIET REPUBLIC . . . . . 50

TRANSCAUCASIAN COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIESUNDER A SOCIALIST MASK . . . . . . . . 52

ORGANIZATION OF A RUSSIAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC.Pravda Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Bourgeois-Democratic Federations . . . . . . 68

How the Russian Federation Now in Process of For-mation Differs From Them . . . . . . . . 69

Structural Principles of the Russian Federation . . 70

Composition of the Russian Federal Republic . . 71

Rights of Federating Regions. Rights of NationalMinorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Structure of the Central Authority . . . . . . 72

The Executive Organ of Power . . . . . . . 73

CONTENTS IX

Transitional Function of Federalism . . . . . 74

Shaping the Political Structure of the RussianFederation. Federalism in Russia—a TransitionalStep to Socialist Unitarism . . . . . . . . 75

ONE IMMEDIATE TASK . . . . . . . . . . . 76

GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OFTHE RUSSIAN SOCIALIST FEDERATIVE SOVIETREPUBLIC. Draft Approved by the Commission Ap-pointed by the All-Russian C.E.C. for Drafting theConstitution of the Soviet Republic . . . . . . . 81

TELEGRAM TO THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF SOVIETSOF THE TURKESTAN REGION, April 22, 1918 . 83

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UKRAINE.Izvestia Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Conclusion of an Armistice . . . . . . . . 84

Subsequent Negotiations . . . . . . . . . 84

Effect of the Coup d’État in the Ukraine . . . . 85

Causes of the Coup d’État . . . . . . . . 86

SPEECHES DELIVERED AT A CONFERENCE ON THECONVENING OF A CONSTITUENT CONGRESS OFSOVIETS OF THE TATAR-BASHKIR SOVIET RE-PUBLIC, May 10-16, 1918 . . . . . . . . . 87

1. Speech at the Opening of the Conference, May 10 87

2. Speech at the Closing of the Conference, May 16 93

ANOTHER LIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

THE SITUATION IN THE CAUCASUS . . . . . . 96

I. Transcaucasia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

II. The North Caucasus . . . . . . . . . . 98

CONCERNING THE SITUATION IN THE CAUCASUSFrom the People’s Commissariat for the Affairs of Na-tionalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

CONTENTSX

THE DON AND THE NORTH CAUCASUS (Machina-tions and the Facts) . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

TELEGRAM TO V. I. LENIN, June 7, 1918 . . . . 118

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN, July 7, 1918 . . . . . . 120

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN, July 10, 1918 . . . . . . 122

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN, August 4, 1918 . . . . . 124

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN, August 31, 1918 . . . . . 129

TELEGRAM TO SVERDLOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,August 31, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

TELEGRAM TO THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S COM-MISSARS, September 6, 1918 . . . . . . . . 131

TELEGRAM TO VOROSHILOV, COMMANDER OF THEFRONT, TSARITSYN, September 19, 1918 . . . 132

THE SOUTHERN FRONT. Izvestia Interview . . . . 133

THE LOGIC OF FACTS (In Reference to the “Theses”of the Central Committee of the Mensheviks) . . . . 136

I. The October Revolution . . . . . . . . 136

II. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat . . . . 139

III. Petty-Bourgeois Muddle . . . . . . . . 142

IV. What Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENARY MEETINGOF THE MOSCOW SOVIET OF WORKERS’, SOL-DIERS’ AND PEASANTS’ DEPUTIES ON THESITUATION ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT, October29, 1918 (Newspaper Report) . . . . . . . . 149

THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA. Pravda Interview. . . . . 151

Importance of the Southern Front . . . . . . 151

Tsaritsyn the Main Target . . . . . . . . . 152

Wherein Lies the Strength of Our Army? . . . . 153

CONTENTS XI

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION (October 24 and 25, 1917,in Petrograd) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE NATIONALQUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

I. The February Revolution and the National Ques-tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

II. The October Revolution and the National Ques-tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

III. The World-Wide Significance of the OctoberRevolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

PARTITION WALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

DON’T FORGET THE EAST . . . . . . . . . . 174

THE UKRAINE IS LIBERATING ITSELF . . . . . 177

LIGHT FROM THE EAST . . . . . . . . . . . 181

THINGS ARE MOVING . . . . . . . . . . . 187

1919

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN FROM THE EASTERNFRONT, January 5, 1919 . . . . . . . . . . 190

REPORT TO V. I. LENIN . . . . . . . . . . . 194

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A JOINT MEETING OFPARTY AND SOVIET ORGANIZATIONS IN VYAT-KA, January 19, 1919 (Record in the Minutes) . . 200

REPORT TO COMRADE LENIN BY THE COMMISSIONOF THE PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE ANDTHE COUNCIL OF DEFENCE ON THE REASONSFOR THE FALL OF PERM IN DECEMBER 1918 . 202

General Picture of the Disaster . . . . . . . 202

The Third Army and the Reserves . . . . . . 209Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Control System of the Army and Instructions ofthe Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

CONTENTSXII

Insecurity of the Rear and Work of the Party andSoviet Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . 219

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Supply and Evacuation Agencies . . . . . . 224Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Total Losses of Materiel and Men . . . . . . 229

Measures Taken to Strengthen the Front . . . . 230

THE GOVERNMENT’S POLICY ON THE NATIONAL QUES-TION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

TO THE SOVIETS AND THE PARTY ORGANIZATIONSOF TURKESTAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

TWO CAMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

OUR TASKS IN THE EAST . . . . . . . . . . 245

TWO YEARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

IMPERIALISM’S RESERVES . . . . . . . . . . 254

EXCERPT FROM A SPEECH ON THE MILITARY QUES-TION DELIVERED AT THE EIGHTH CONGRESSOF THE R.C.P.(B.), March 21, 1919 . . . . . 258

THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF STATE CONTROL. ReportDelivered at a Meeting of the All-Russian Central Execu-tive Committee, April 9, 1919 (Newspaper Report) . 260

THE SHOOTING OF THE TWENTY-SIX BAKU COM-RADES BY AGENTS OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM 261

TELEGRAM TO THE INSPECTOR-EXTRAORDINARYOF STATE CONTROL, SHCHIGRY, May 7, 1919 266

NOTE TO V. I. LENIN FROM PETROGRAD BY DI-RECT WIRE, May 25, 1919 . . . . . . . . 268

TELEGRAM TO V. I. LENIN, June 16, 1919 . . . 271

NOTE TO V. I. LENIN FROM PETROGRAD BY DI-RECT WIRE, June 18, 1919 . . . . . . . . 272

THE PETROGRAD FRONT. Pravda Interview . . . 275

CONTENTS XIII

1. The Approaches to Petrograd . . . . . . . 2752. The Enemy’s Forces . . . . . . . . . . . 2763. The Enemy’s Calculations . . . . . . . . . 2774. The Situation at the Front . . . . . . . . 2785. The Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2796. Summing up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN ABOUT THE SITUATIONON THE WESTERN FRONT, August 11, 1919 . . 282

LETTER TO V. I. LENIN FROM THE SOUTHERNFRONT, October 15, 1919 . . . . . . . . . 285

TELEGRAM TO V. I. LENIN, October 25, 1919 . . 289

SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE SECOND ALL-RUS-SIAN CONGRESS OF COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONSOF THE PEOPLES OF THE EAST, November 22, 1919 290

GREETINGS TO PETROGRAD FROM THE SOUTHERNFRONT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

THE MILITARY SITUATION IN THE SOUTH . . . 294

I. Abortive Plans of the Entente . . . . . . . 294

II. Causes of the Defeat of the Counter-revolution 296

III. Present Situation on the Southern Front . . . 301

1920

ORDER OF THE DAY TO THE UKRAINIAN LABOURARMY, March 7, 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . 304

SPEECHES AT THE FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THECOMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIKS) OF THEUKRAINE, March 17-23, 1920 . . . . . . . . 306

1. Speech at the Opening of the Conference, March 17 306

2. Report on Economic Policy, March 19 . . . . 307

3. Reply to the Discussion on the Report on EconomicPolicy, March 20 . . . . . . . . . . . 314

4. Speech at the Closing of the Conference, March 23 315

CONTENTSXIV

LENIN AS THE ORGANIZER AND LEADER OF THERUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY . . . . . . . 317

I. Lenin as the Organizer of the Russian Commu-nist Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

II. Lenin as the Leader of the Russian CommunistParty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A MEETING CALLED BY THEMOSCOW COMMITTEE, R.C.P.(B.) ON THE OCCA-SION OF V. I. LENIN’S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY,April 23, 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

THE ENTENTE’S NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST RUSSIA 331

I. The General Situation . . . . . . . . . 332

II. Rear. Striking Area . . . . . . . . . . 335

III. Prospects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

THE SITUATION ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN FRONT.Ukrainian ROSTA Interview . . . . . . . . . 341

The Break-Through . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Results of the Break-Through . . . . . . . . 342

Fate of the Polish Third Army . . . . . . . 343

Situation at the Front . . . . . . . . . . 344

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

The Crimean Front . . . . . . . . . . . 345

TELEGRAM TO V. I. LENIN, June 25, 1920 . . . 347

THE SITUATION ON THE POLISH FRONT. Pravda In-terview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

1. May-June . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

2. The Zhitomir Break-Through . . . . . . . 349

3. Results of the Break-Through . . . . . . . 350

4. The Danger From the South . . . . . . . 351

5. Remember Wrangel . . . . . . . . . . 352

HOW THE RED ARMY IS GREETED. Statement to Kras-noarmeyets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

CONTENTS XV

TO ALL PARTY ORGANIZATIONS. Draft Letter of theC.C., R.C.P.(B.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

CREATION OF FIGHTING RESERVES OF THE REPUB-LIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

1. Memorandum to the Political Bureau, C.C.,R.C.P.(B.), August 25, 1920 . . . . . . . 358

2. Statement to the Political Bureau, C.C.,R.C.P.(B.), August 30, 1920 . . . . . . . 360

THE POLICY OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT ON THENATIONAL QUESTION IN RUSSIA . . . . . . 363

SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE FIRST ALL-RUSSIAN CONFERENCE OF RESPONSIBLE PER-SONNEL OF THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’INSPECTION, October 15, 1920 . . . . . . . 377

AUTHOR’S PREFACE. To a Collection of Articles on theNational Question, Published in 1920 . . . . . . 383

THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE REPUBLIC.Report Delivered at a Regional Conference of CommunistOrganizations of the Don and the Caucasus, held inVladikavkaz, October 27, 1920 . . . . . . . . 387

THREE YEARS OF PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP.Report Delivered at a Celebration Meeting of the BakuSoviet, November 6, 1920 . . . . . . . . . . 395

The First Period . . . . . . . . . . . . 396

The Second Period . . . . . . . . . . . 398

The Third Period . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLES OF DAGHESTAN,November 13, 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

1. Declaration on Soviet Autonomy for Daghestan . 407

2. Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . 411

CONTENTSXVI

CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE TEREKREGION, November 17, 1920 . . . . . . . . 412

1. Report on Soviet Autonomy for the Terek Region 412

2. Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . 417

THE SITUATION IN THE CAUCASUS. Pravda Interview . 421

LONG LIVE SOVIET ARMENIA! . . . . . . . . 426

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429



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SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE CONFERENCEOF COMMUNISTS OF THE TYURK PEOPLES OF THE

R.S.F.S.R., January 1, 1921 (Record in the Minutes) 1

OUR DISAGREEMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . 4

I. Two Methods of Approach to the Mass of theWorkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

II. Conscious Democracy and Forced “Democracy” . . 8

THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF THE PARTY IN THENATIONAL QUESTION. Theses for the Tenth Congressof the R.C.P.(B.) Endorsed by the Central Committeeof the Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

I. The Capitalist System and National Oppression . . 16

II. The Soviet System and National Freedom . . . 20

III. The Immediate Tasks of the R.C.P. . . . . . 24

THE TENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), March8-16, 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

1. Report on the mmediate Tasks of the Party in the National Question, March 10 . . . . . . . . . 33

2. Reply to the Discussion, March 10 . . . . . . . 45

A LETTER TO V. I. LENIN . . . . . . . . . . 50

CONTENTSVIII

CONCERNING THE PRESENTATION OF THE NA-TIONAL QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

GREETINGS TO THE FIRST CONGRESS OF HIGH-LAND WOMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

THE POLITICAL STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THERUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Synopsis of a Pamphlet . . 63

I. Definition of Terms and Subject of Investigation 63II. Historic Turns in the Development of Russia . . 68

III. Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF COMMUNISM IN GEOR-GIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA. Report to a General Meet-ing of the Tiflis Organisation of the Communist Party ofGeorgia, July 6, 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . 90

THE PARTY BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING POWER . 103

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE NATIONALPOLICY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS . . . 115

THE PROSPECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

1922

TO PRAVDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRAVDA (Reminis-cences) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

1. The Lena Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 1312. The Foundation of Pravda . . . . . . . . . 1323. The Organisational Significance of Pravda . . . . 134

COMRADE LENIN ON VACATION. NOTES . . . . 136

GREETINGS TO PETROGRAD, TO THE SOVIET OFDEPUTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

THE QUESTION OF THE UNION OF THE INDEPEND-ENT NATIONAL REPUBLICS. Interview With aPravda Correspondent . . . . . . . . . . . 141

CONTENTS IX

THE UNION OF THE SOVIET REPUBLICS. ReportDelivered at the Tenth All-Russian Congress of Soviets,December 26, 1922 . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

THE FORMATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SO-CIALIST REPUBLICS. Report Delivered at the FirstCongress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R., December 30, 1922 159

1923

CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE STRATEGYAND TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS . 163

I. Preliminary Concepts . . . . . . . . . . 163

1. Two Aspects of the Working-Class Movement . . . 163

2. The Theory and Programme of Marxism . . . . 165

3. Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

4. Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

5. Forms of Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . 171

6. Forms of Organisation . . . . . . . . . . 172

7. The Slogan. The Directive . . . . . . . . 174

II. The Strategic Plan . . . . . . . . . . . 176

1. Historic Turns. Strategic Plans . . . . . . . . 176

2. The First Historic Turn and the Course Towards the

Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution in Russia . . . 177

3. The Second Historic Turn and the Course Towards the

Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Russia . . . . . 179

4. The Third Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Pro-letarian Revolution in Europe . . . . . . . . 181

NATIONAL FACTORS IN PARTY AND STATE AF-FAIRS. Theses for the Twelfth Congress of the Rus-sian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Approved by theCentral Committee of the Party . . . . . . . . 184

I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

CONTENTSX

THE TWELFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), April17-25, 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

1. The Organisational Report of the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), April 17 . . . . . . . . . 199

2. Reply to the Discussion on the Central Committee’s Organisational Report, April 19 . . . . . . . 227

3. Report on National Factors in Party and State Af- fairs, April 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

4. Reply to the Discussion on the Report on National Factors in Party and State Affairs, April 25 . . . 269

5. Answer on the Amendments to the Resolution, April 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

6. Supplement to the Report of the Commission on the National Question, April 25 . . . . . . . . 284

THE PRESS AS A COLLECTIVE ORGANISER . . . . 286

CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED . . . . . . . 291

FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRAL COMMIT-TEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) WITH RESPONSIBLEWORKERS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICS ANDREGIONS, June 9-12, 1923 . . . . . . . . . 297

1. Draft Platform on the National Question for the Fourth Conference, Endorsed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee . . . . . . . . . 299

The General Line on Party Work on the National Question 299

Questions Connected With the Institution or a Second Cham- ber or the Central Executive Committee or the Union and With the Organisation of the People’s Commissariats or the Union or Republics . . . . . . . . . 301

Measures for Drawing Working People or the Local Popula- tion Into Party and Soviet Affairs . . . . . . . 303

Measures to Raise the Cultural Level or the Local Population 304

Economic Construction in the National Republics and Re- gions From the Standpoint of the Specific National Fea- tures or Their Manner or Life . . . . . . . . 305

CONTENTS XI

Practical Measures for the Organisation of National Military Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

The Organisation or Party Educational Work . . . . . 306

Selection or Party and Soviet officials With a View to Im- plementing the Resolution on the National Question Adopted by the Twelfth Congress . . . . . . . . . . 307

2. Rights and “Lefts” in the National Republics and Regions. Speech on the First Item of the Conference Agenda: “The Sultan-Galiyev Case,” June 10 . . 308

3. Practical Measures for Implementing the Resolution on the National Question Adopted by the Twelfth Party Congress. Report on the Second Item of the Agenda, June 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

4. Reply to the Discussion, June 12 . . . . . . . 334

5. Reply to Speeches, June 12 . . . . . . . . 347

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE QUESTIONOF THE MIDDLE STRATA . . . . . . . . . 349

THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CON-GRESS OF WORKING WOMEN AND PEASANTWOMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356

SPEECH AT A CELEBRATION MEETING AT THE MIL- ITARY ACADEMY, November 17, 1923 (Brief News- paper Report) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

THE PARTY’S TASKS. Report Delivered at an EnlargedMeeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee ofthe R.C.P.(B.) With Group Organisers, Members of theDebating Society and of the Bureau of the Party Units,December 2, 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Discussion—a Sign of the Party’s Strength. . . . . 362

Causes of the Discussion . . . . . . . . . . 364

Defects in Internal Party Life . . . . . . . . 365

The Causes of the Defects . . . . . . . . . . 368

How Should the Defects in Internal Party Life Be

Removed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

CONTENTSXII

THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BYPREOBRAZHENSKY AND SAPRONOV, ANDTROTSKY’S LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . 380

The Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380

Rafail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384

Preobrazhensky’s Article . . . . . . . . . . 387

Sapronov’s Article . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Trotsky’s Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail) . . . 398

GREETINGS TO THE NEWSPAPER COMMUNIST . . 402

Appendices

Appendix 1. Declaration on the Formation of the Unionof Soviet Socialist Republics . . . . . . . . 403

Appendix 2. Treaty on the Formation of the Union ofSoviet Socialist Republics . . . . . . . . . . 405

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411



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THE DISCUSSION. Interview With a Rosta Correspond-ent, January 9, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

THIRTEENTH CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.), Janu-ary 16-18, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

1. Report on Immediate Tasks in Party Affairs, January 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2. Reply to the Discussion, January 18 . . . . 27

ON THE DEATH OF LENIN. A Speech Delivered at theSecond All-Union Congress of Soviets, January 26, 1924. 47

LENIN. A Speech Delivered at a Memorial Meeting of theKremlin Military School, January 28, 1924 . . . . 54

The Mountain Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Modesty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Force of Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

No Whining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

No Boasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Fidelity to Principle . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Faith in the Masses . . . . . . . . . . . 62

The Genius of Revolution . . . . . . . . . 63

ON THE CONTRADICTIONS IN THE YOUNG COM-MUNIST LEAGUE. Speech at the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)Conference on Work Among the Youth, April 3, 1924 67

CONTENTSVIII

THE FOUNDATIONS OF LENINISM. Lectures Deliveredat the Sverdlov University . . . . . . . . . . 71

I. The Historical Roots of Leninism . . . . . 74

II. Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

III. Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

IV. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat . . . . 111

V. The Peasant Question . . . . . . . . . 126

VI. The National Question . . . . . . . . 143

VII. Strategy and Tactics . . . . . . . . . 155

VIII. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

IX. Style in Work . . . . . . . . . . . 193

THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), May23-31, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Organisational Report of the Central Committee, May 24 199

1. The Mass Organisations That Link the Party With the

Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2002. The State Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . 2063. The Composition of the Party. The Lenin Enrolment 2104. The composition of Leading Party Bodies, Cadres and

the Younger Party Element . . . . . . . . . 2125. The Work of the Party in the Sphere or Agitation and

Propaganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2156. The Work of the Party in the Registration, Alloca-

tion and Promotion of Forces . . . . . . . 2187. Inner-Party Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 2188. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Reply to the Discussion, May 27 . . . . . . . 231

THE RESULTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OFTHE R.C.P.(B.). Report Delivered at the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)Courses for Secretaries of Uyezd Party Committees, June 17,1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Foreign Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Questions of the Bond Between Town and Country 252

CONTENTS IX

Questions of the Education and Re-education of theWorking Masses . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

The Tasks of Party Workers in the Uyezds . . . . 272

WORKER CORRESPONDENTS. Interview With a Repre-sentative of the Magazine “Rabochy Korrespondent” . . 274

THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF POLAND. Speech Deliveredat a Meeting of the Polish Commission of the Comintern,July 3, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

A LETTER TO COMRADE DEMYAN BEDNY. July15, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Y. M. SVERDLOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

CONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION . . 292

1. The Period of Bourgeois-Democratic “Pacifism” 292

2. The Intervention of America in European Affairs andthe Entente’s London Agreement on Reparations 298

3. Strengthening of the Revolutionary Elements inthe European Labour Movement. Growth of theInternational Popularity of the Soviet Union 304

THE PARTY’S IMMEDIATE TASKS IN THE COUNTRY-SIDE. Speech Delivered at a Conference of Secretaries ofRural Party Units, Called by the Central Committee ofthe R.C.P.(B.), October 22, 1924 . . . . . . . . 315

Defects in the Reports From the Localities . . 315

The Party’s Chief Defect—the Weakness of PartyWork in the Countryside . . . . . . . . 317

Wherein Lies the Strength of Our Party in the Towns? 317

Wherein Lies the Weakness of Our Work in the Coun-tryside? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

The Chief Task Is to Create a Peasant Active Aroundthe Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

CONTENTSX

The Soviets Must Be Revitalised . . . . . . . 319

The Approach to the Peasantry Must Be Changed . 320

The Lessons of the Revolt in Georgia . . . . . 321

A Tactful Approach to the Peasantry Is Needed . . 323

The Party’s Chief Tasks . . . . . . . . . . 324

Conditions for the Work . . . . . . . . . . 324

The Chief Thing Is To Maintain Contact With the Millions of Non-Party People . . . . . . . . 325

THE PARTY’S TASKS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. SpeechDelivered at the Plenum of the Central Committee ofthe R.C.P.(B.), October 26, 1924 . . . . . . . 327

ENTRY IN THE RED BOOK OF THE DYNAMO FAC-TORY, November 7, 1924 . . . . . . . . . 335

TO THE FIRST CAVALRY ARMY . . . . . . . . 336

TO KRESTYANSKAYA GAZETA . . . . . . . . 337

TROTSKYISM OR LENINISM? Speech Delivered at thePlenum of the Communist Group in the A.U.C.C.T.U.,November 19, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

I. The Facts About the October Uprising . . . 338

II. The Party and the Preparation for October . . 346

III. Trotskyism or Leninism? . . . . . . . . 363

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE TACTICSOF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Preface to the Book“On the Road to October” . . . . . . . . . . 374

I. The External and Internal Setting for the OctoberRevolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374

II. Two Specific Features of the October Revolu-tion—or October and Trotsky’s Theory of “Per-manent” Revolution . . . . . . . . . . 378

CONTENTS XI

III. Certain Specific Features of the Tactics of the

Bolsheviks During the Period of Preparation

for October . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

IV. The October Revolution as the Beginning of

and the Pre-condition for the World Revolution 414

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Biographical Chronicle (1924) . . . . . . . . . 439


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WORKING WOMEN AND PEASANT WOMEN, REMEM-BER AND CARRY OUT ILYICH’S BEHESTS! . . 1

TO THE TEACHERS’ CONGRESS . . . . . . . . 3

THE TASKS OF THE MAGAZINE KRASNAYA MOLO-DYOZH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENUM OF THECENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRALCONTROL COMMISSION OF THE R.C.P.(B.), Janu-ary 17, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE PLENUM OF THE CEN-TRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.), January 19,1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

TO RABOCHAYA GAZETA . . . . . . . . . . . 15

A LETTER TO COMRADE D—OV . . . . . . . . 16

“DYMOVKA.” Speech Delivered at a Meeting of theOrganising Bureau of the Central Committee of theR.C.P.(B.), January 26, 1925. . . . . . . . . 19

CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE PROLETARIATAND THE PEASANTRY. Speech Delivered at the Thir-teenth Gubernia Conference of the Moscow Organisation ofthe R.C.P.(B.), January 27, 1925. . . . . . . . 25

THE PROSPECTS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OFGERMANY AND THE QUESTION OF BOLSHEVISA-TION. Interview with Herzog, Member of the C.P.G. . 34

CONTENTSVIII

A LETTER TO COMRADE ME—RT . . . . . . . 42

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY . . . . . . . . 48

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) TOTHE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THEKUOMINTANG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION AND THE TASKSOF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES . . . . . . . 51

THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA.Speech Delivered in the Czechoslovak Commission of theE.C.C.I., March 27, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . 58

CONCERNING THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN YUGOSLA-VIA. Speech Delivered in the Yugoslav Commission of theE.C.C.I., March 30, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . 69

THE ACTIVE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUEIN THE COUNTRYSIDE. Speech Delivered at a Meet-ing of the Organising Bureau of the Central Committee ofthe R.C.P.(B.), April 6, 1925 . . . . . . . . . 77

TO THE FIRST ALL-UNION CONFERENCE OF PROLE-TARIAN STUDENTS. A Message . . . . . . . 85

THE RESULTS OF THE WORK OF THE FOURTEENTHCONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.); Report Deliv-ered at a Meeting of the Active of the Moscow Organisationof the R.C.P.(B.), May 9, 1925 . . . . . . . . 90

I. The International Situation . . . . . . . 91

II. The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Partiesin the Capitalist Countries. . . . . . . . 102

III. The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Elementsin the Colonial and Dependent Countries . . . 107

IV. The Fate of Socialism in the Soviet Union . . 110

V. The Party’s Policy in the Countryside . . . 123

VI. The Metal Industry . . . . . . . . . . 130

CONTENTS IX

THE POLITICAL TASKS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THEPEOPLES OF THE EAST. Speech Delivered at a Meet-ing of Students of the Communist University of theToilers of the East, May 18, 1925 . . . . . . . 135

I. The Tasks of the Communist University of theToilers of the East in Relation to the SovietRepublics of the East . . . . . . . . . . 136

II. The Tasks of the Communist University of theToilers of the East in Relation to the Colonialand Dependent Countries of the East . . . . 146

TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARDOF KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA . . . . . . . 155

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Speech Delivered at the Sverd-lov University, June 9, 1925 . . . . . . . . 158

TO THE SVERDLOV UNIVERSITY. On the Occasion ofthe Second Graduation of Students of Basic and TradeUnion Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

THE NATIONAL QUESTION ONCE AGAIN. Concerningthe Article by Semich . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE EAST.Interview Given to Mr. Fuse, Japanese Correspondentof Nichi-Nichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

A LETTER TO COMRADE YERMAKOVSKY . . . . 237

INTERVIEW WITH THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CON-FERENCE OF AGITATION AND PROPAGANDADEPARTMENTS, October 14, 1925 . . . . . . . 240

THE TASKS OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE.Answers to Questions Submitted by the Editorial Board ofKomsomolskaya Pravda . . . . . . . . . . . 247

SPEECH AT THE FUNERAL OF M. V. FRUNZE, Novem-ber 3, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

CONTENTSX

OCTOBER, LENIN, AND THE PROSPECTS OF OURDEVELOPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

A LETTER TO THE PRESIDIUM OF THE TWENTY-SECOND LENINGRAD GUBERNIA PARTY CON-FERENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.),December 18-31, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Political Report of the Central Committee, Decem-ber 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

I. The International Situation . . . . . . . . . 267

1. The Stabilisation of Capitalism . . . . . . . . 2692. Imperialism, the Colonies and Semi-Colonies . . . . 2753. Victors and Vanquished . . . . . . . . . . 2774. The Contradictions between the Victor Countries . . . 2845. The Capitalist World and the Soviet Union . . . . 2886. The External Position of the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . 2957. The Party’s Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

II. The Internal Situation in the Soviet Union 304

1. The National Economy as a Whole . . . . . . . 3052. Industry and Agriculture . . . . . . . . . 3213. Questions Concerning Trade . . . . . . . . . 3254. Classes, Their Activity, Their Correlation . . . . . 3275. Lenin’s Three Slogans on the Peasant Question . . . 3326. Two Dangers and Two Deviations In Regard to the Peas-

ant Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3427. The Party’s Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

III. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of theCentral Committee, December 23 . . . . . . . 362

1. Sokolnikov and the Dawesation of Our Country . . . 3632. Kamenev and Our Concessions to the Peasantry . . . 3653. Whose Miscalculations? . . . . . . . . . . 369

CONTENTS XI

4. How Sokolnikov Protects the Poor Peasants . . . . 3705. Ideological Struggle or Slander? . . . . . . . 3726. Concerning NEP . . . . . . . . . . . . 3737. Concerning State Capitalism . . . . . . . . . 3758. Zinoviev and the Peasantry . . . . . . . . . 3819. Concerning the History of the Disagreements . . . 389

10. The Opposition’s Platform . . . . . . . . . 39711. Their “Desire for Peace” . . . . . . . . . 39912. The Party Will Achieve Unity . . . . . . . . 401

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Biographical Chronicle (1925) . . . . . . . . . . 419


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THE FIGHT AGAINST RIGHT AND “ULTRA-LEFT”DEVIATIONS. Two Speeches Delivered at a Meeting ofthe Presidium of the E.C.C.I., January 22, 1926 . . . 1

I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE COLLEC-TION QUESTIONS OF LENINISM . . . . . . 11

CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF LENINISM . . . . 13

I. The Definition of Leninism . . . . . . . 13

II. The Main Thing in Leninism . . . . . . 16

III. The Question of “Permanent” Revolution . . 19

IV. The Proletarian Revolution and the Dictator-ship of the Proletariat . . . . . . . . . 22

V. The Party and the Working Class in the Systemof the Dictatorship of the Proletariat . . . 33

VI. The Question of the Victory of Socialism in OneCountry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

VII. The Fight for the Victory of Socialist Construc-tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

THE PEASANTRY AS AN ALLY OF THE WORKINGCLASS. Reply to Comrades P. F. Boltnev, V. I. Efremovand V. I. Ivlev . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING SOCIALISM IN OURCOUNTRY. Reply to Comrade Pokoyev . . . . 101

CONTENTSVIII

COMRADE KOTOVSKY . . . . . . . . . . . 105

SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE FRENCH COMMISSIONOF THE SIXTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THEE.C.C.I., March 6, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . 106

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST WOMEN’S DAY . . 114

SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE GERMAN COMMISSIONOF THE SIXTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THEE.C.C.I., March 8, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . 115

THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE SOVIET UNIONAND THE POLICY OF THE PARTY. Report to theActive of the Leningrad Party Organisation on the Workof the Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), April 13, 1926 123

I. Two Periods of NEP . . . . . . . . . 124

II. The Course Towards Industrialisation . . . . 126

III. Questions of Socialist Accumulation . . . . . 129

IV. The Proper Use of Accumulations. The Regimeof Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

V. We Must Create Cadres of Builders of Industry 145

VI. We Must Raise the Activity of the WorkingClass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

VII. We Must Strengthen the Alliance of the Work-ers and Peasants . . . . . . . . . . . 148

VIII. We Must Put Inner-Party Democracy into Ef-fect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

IX. We Must Protect the Unity of the Party . . . 153

X. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

TO COMRADE KAGANOVICH AND THE OTHER MEM-BERS OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THECENTRAL COMMITTEE, UKRAINIAN C.P.(B.) . . 157

THE BRITISH STRIKE AND THE EVENTS IN POLAND.Report Delivered at a Meeting of Workers of the ChiefRailway Workshops in Tiflis, June 8, 1926 . . . . 164

What Caused the Strike in Britain? . . . . . . . 164

CONTENTS IX

Why Did the British General Strike Fail? . . . . . 169

Lessons of the General Strike . . . . . . . . . 173

Some Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

The Recent Events in Poland . . . . . . . . 177

REPLY TO THE GREETINGS OF THE WORKERS OFTHE CHIEF RAILWAY WORKSHOPS IN TIFLIS,June 8, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN UNITY COMMITTEE. Speech Deliv-cred at a Joint Plenum of the Central Committee andthe Central Control Commission, C.P.S.U.(B.), July15, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

F. DZERZHINSKY (In Memory of F. Dzerzhinsky) . . . 203

THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN COMMITTEE. Speech Deliveredat a Meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I., August 7,1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE DAILY WORK-ER, CENTRAL ORGAN OF THE WORKERSPARTY OF AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . 215

LETTER TO SLEPKOV . . . . . . . . . . . 217

MEASURES FOR MITIGATING THE INNER-PARTYSTRUGGLE. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Po-litical Bureau of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.), October 11,1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

THE OPPOSITION BLOC IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.). Thesesfor the Fifteenth All-Union Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.),Adopted by the Conference and Endorsed by the C.C.,C.P.S.U.(B.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

I. The Passing over of the “New Opposition” toTrotskyism on the Basic Question of the Charac-ter and Prospects of Our Revolution . . . 227

II. The Practical Platform of the Opposition Bloc 232

CONTENTSX

III. The “Revolutionary” Words and OpportunistDeeds of the Opposition Bloc . . . . . . 239

IV. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR PAR-TY. Report Delivered at the Fifteenth All-Union Confer-ence of the C.P.S.U.(B.), November 1, 1926 . . . . 245

I. The Stages of Development of the OppositionBloc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

1. The First Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . 2462. The Second Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 2473. The Third Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 2494. The Fourth Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 2505. Lenin and the Question of Blocs in the Party . . . 2526. The Process of Decomposition of the Opposition Bloc 2547. What Is the Opposition Bloc Counting on? . . . . 256

II. The Principal Error of the Opposition Bloc . . 258

1. Preliminary Remarks . . . . . . . . . . 2592. Leninism or Trotskyism? . . . . . . . . . 264

3. The Resolution of the Fourteenth Conference on theR.C.P.(B.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

4. The Passing over of the “New Opposition” to Trots-kyism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

5. Trotsky’s Evasion. Smilga. Radek . . . . . . 287

6. The Decisive Importance of the Question of the Pros-pects of Our Constructive Work . . . . . . . 292

7. The Political Prospects of the Opposition Bloc . . . 295

III. The Political and Organisational Errors of theOpposition Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . 299

IV. Some Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . 306

REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON“THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OURPARTY,” November 3, 1926 . . . . . . . . . 311

I. Some General Questions . . . . . . . . 311

1. Marxism Is Not a Dogma, but a Guide to Action 311

CONTENTS XI

2. Some Remarks of Lenin on the Dictatorship of theProletariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

3. The Unevenness of Development of the CapitalistCountries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

II. Kamenev Clears the Way for Trotsky . . . 330

III. An Incredible Muddle, or Zinoviev on Revo-lutionary Spirit and Internationalism . . . . 339

IV. Trotsky Falsifies Leninism . . . . . . . 347

1. Trotsky’s conjuring Tricks, or the Question of “Perma-nent Revolution” . . . . . . . . . . . 347

2. Juggling with Quotations, or Trotsky Falsifies Lenin-ism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

3. “Trifles” and Curiosities . . . . . . . . . 363

V. The Practical Platform of the Opposition. TheDemands of the Party . . . . . . . . . 366

VI. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370

THE PROSPECTS OF THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA.Speech Delivered in the Chinese Commission of the E.C.C.I.,November 30, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

I. Character of the Revolution in China . . . 373

II. Imperialism and Imperialist Intervention inChina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

III. The Revolutionary Army in China . . . . 378

IV. Character of the Future Government in China 381

V. The Peasant Question in China . . . . . 384

VI. The Proletariat and the Hegemony of the Pro-letariat in China . . . . . . . . . . . 388

VII. The Question of the Youth in China . . . 390

VIII. Some Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . 391

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Biographical Chronicle (January-November 1926) . . . 409


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THE SEVENTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE E.C.C.I.,November 22-December 16, 1926 . . . . . . . . 1-155

Once More on the Social-Democratic Deviation inOur Party. Report Delivered on December 7 . . 3

I. Preliminary Remarks . . . . . . . . . 3

1. Contradictions of Inner-Party Development . . 32. Sources of Contradictions Within the Party . . . 9

II. Specific Features of the Opposition in theC.P.S.U.(B.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

III. The Disagreements in the C.P.S.U.(B.) . . 21

1. Questions of Socialist Construction . . . . . 212. Factors of the “Respite” . . . . . . . . 263. The Unity and Inseparability of the “National” and

International Tasks of the Revolution . . . . 284. Concerning the History of the Question of Building

Socialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305. The Special Importance of the Question of Building

Socialism in the U.S.S.R. at the Present Moment 376. The Perspectives of the Revolution . . . . . 407. How the Question Really Stands . . . . . . 428. The Chances of Victory . . . . . . . . . 449. Disagreements Over Political Practice . . . . . 47

IV. The Opposition at Work . . . . . . . . 50

V. Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of theProletariat Praise the Opposition . . . . . 54

CONTENTSVIII

VI. Defeat of the Opposition Bloc . . . . . . 59

VII. The Practical Meaning and Importance of theFifteenth Conference of the C.P.S.U.(B.) . . . 63

Reply to the Discussion, December 13 . . . . 65

I. Miscellaneous Remarks . . . . . . . . . 65

1. We Need Facts, Not Inventions and Tittle-Tattle 652. Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletar-

iat Praise the Opposition . . . . . . . . 723. There Are Errors and Errors . . . . . . . 784. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat According to

Zinoviev . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825. Trotsky’s Oracular Sayings . . . . . . . . 866. Zinoviev In the Role of a Schoolboy Quoting Marx,

Engels, Lenin . . . . . . . . . . . . 907. Revisionism According to Zinoviev . . . . . 100

II. The Question of the Victory of Socialism inIndividual Capitalist Countries . . . . . . 105

1. The Prerequisites for Proletarian Revolutions in In-dividual Countries in the Period of Imperialism. 105

2. How Zinoviev “Elaborates” Lenin . . . . . . 116

III. The Question of Building Socialism in theU.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

1. The “Manoeuvres” of the Opposition and the“National-Reformism” of Lenin’s Party . . . . 121

2. We are Building and Can Completely Build theEconomic Basis of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. . . 131

3. We are Building Socialism in Alliance With theWorld Proletariat . . . . . . . . . . . 143

4. The Question of Degeneration . . . . . . . 147

IV. The Opposition and the Question of Party Unity 149

V. Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

LETTER TO KSENOFONTOV . . . . . . . . . . 156

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIFTEENTH MOSCOWGUBERNIA PARTY CONFERENCE, January 14, 1927 159

LETTER TO COMRADE ZAITSEV . . . . . . . . 167

CONTENTS IX

TO THE LENA WORKERS . . . . . . . . . . 171

GREETINGS TO THE STALINGRAD NEWSPAPERBORBA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A MEETING OF WORKERSOF THE STALIN RAILWAY WORKSHOPS, OCTO-BER RAILWAY, March 1, 1927 (Abbreviated Report) 173

LETTER TO COMRADES TSVETKOV AND ALYPOV 179

CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF A WORKERS’ ANDPEASANTS’ GOVERNMENT. Reply to Dmitriev . . 182

LETTER TO SHINKEVICH . . . . . . . . . . . 194

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIFTH ALL-UNIONCONFERENCE OF THE ALL-UNION LENINISTYOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, March 29, 1927 . . 196

LETTER TO CHUGUNOV . . . . . . . . . . . 205

THE PARTY’S THREE FUNDAMENTAL SLOGANS ONTHE PEASANT QUESTION. Reply to Yan—sky . . 207

QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Thesesfor Propagandists, Approved by the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) 224

I. Prospects of the Chinese Revolution . . . . 224

II. The First Stage of the Chinese Revolution . . 226

III. The Second Stage of the Chinese Revolution 229

IV. Errors of the Opposition . . . . . . . . 231

TO PRAVDA (On the Occasion of Its Fifteenth Anniversary) 235

CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVO-LUTION. Reply to Comrade Marchulin . . . . . 236

TALK WITH STUDENTS OF THE SUN YAT-SEN UNI-VERSITY, May 13, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . 243

THE SLOGAN OF THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLE-TARIAT AND POOR PEASANTRY IN THE PERIODOF PREPARATION FOR OCTOBER. Reply to S. Pok-rovsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

CONTENTSX

THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA AND THE TASKS OFTHE COMINTERN. Speech Delivered at the TenthSitting. Eighth Plenum of the E.C.C.I., May 24, 1927 . 288

I. Some Minor Questions . . . . . . . . . 288

II. The Agrarian-Peasant Revolution as the Basisof the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution . . 291

III. The Right Kuomintang in Nanking, WhichMassacres Communists, and the Left Kuomin-tang in Wuhan, Which Maintains an AllianceWith the Communists . . . . . . . . . 299

IV. Soviets of Workers’ and Peasants’ Deputiesin China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

V. Two Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314

TO THE STUDENTS OF THE COMMUNIST UNIVERSITYOF THE TOILERS OF THE EAST . . . . . . . 319

REPLY TO S. POKROVSKY . . . . . . . . . . 321

NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY THEMES . . . . . . 328

I. The Threat of War . . . . . . . . . . 328

II. China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Biographical Chronicle (December 1926-July 1927) . . . 385


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JOINT PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ANDCENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THEC.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9, 1927 . . . . . . 1

The International Situation and the Defence of theU.S.S.R. Speech Delivered on August 1 . . . . 3

I. The Attacks of the Opposition on Sectionsof the Comintern . . . . . . . . . . . 3

II. About China . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

III. The Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee . . . . 39

IV. The Threat of War and the Defence of theU.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Speech Delivered on August 5 . . . . . . . . 63

With Reference to the Opposition’s “Declaration” ofAugust 8, 1927. Speech Delivered on August 9 . . . 90

INTERVIEW WTTH THE FIRST AMERICAN LABOURDELEGATION, September 9, 1927 . . . . . . . 97

I. Questions Put by the Delegation and ComradeStalin’s Answers . . . . . . . . . . . 97

II. Questions Put by Comrade Stalin and theDelegates’ Replies . . . . . . . . . . 141

TO COMRADE M. I. ULYANOVA. REPLY TO COMRADEL. MIKHELSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

CONTENTSVIII

THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIANOPPOSITION. Excerpt from a Speech Delivered at aJoint Meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Com-mittee of the Comintern and the International ControlCommission, September 27, 1927. . . . . . . . 158

SYNOPSIS OF THE ARTICLE “THE INTERNATIONALCHARACTER OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION” 173

THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW.Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum ofthe Central Committee and Central Control Commissionof the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23, 1927 . . . . . . 177

I. Some Minor Questions . . . . . . . . 177

II. The Opposition’s “Platform” . . . . . . 183

III. Lenin on Discussions and Oppositions inGeneral . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

IV. The Opposition and the “Third Force” . . 188

V. How the Opposition Is “Preparing” for theCongress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

VI. From Leninism to Trotskyism . . . . . . 198

VII. Some of the Most Important Results of theParty’s Policy During the Past Few Years 202

VIII. Back to Axelrod . . . . . . . . . . 207

INTERVIEW WITH FOREIGN WORKERS’ DELEGA-TIONS, November 5, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . 212

THE INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE OCTO-BER REVOLUTION. On the Occasion of the TenthAnniversary of the October Revolution . . . . . . 244

TO THE PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE MOSCOWMILITARY AREA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

THE PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION. Speech Deliveredat the Sixteenth Moscow Gubernia Party Conference,November 23, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

CONTENTS IX

I. Brief Results of the Discussion . . . . . 257

II. The Working Class and the Peasantry . . . 260

III. The Party and the Dictatorship of the Pro-letariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

IV. The Prospects of Our Revolution . . . . . 270

V. What Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

THE FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.),December 2-19, 1927 . . . . . . . . . . . . 275Political Report of the Central Committee, December 3 277

I. The Growing Crisis of World Capitalism andthe External Situation of the U.S.S.R. . . . 277

1. The Economics of World Capitalism and the Intensi-fication of the Struggle for Foreign Markets . . . 278

2. The International Policy of Capitalism and thePreparation of New Imperialist Wars . . . . . . 282

3. The State of the World Revolutionary Movementand the Harbingers of a New Revolutionary Upsurge 288

4. The Capitalist World and the U.S.S.R. . . . . . 291

5. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

II. The Successes of Socialist Construction and theInternal Situation in the U.S.S.R. . . . . . 298

1. The National Economy as a Whole . . . . . 300

2. The Rate of Development of Our Large-ScaleSocialist Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 307

3. The Rate of Development of Our Agriculture . . . 310

4. Classes, the State Apparatus and the Country’sCultural Development . . . . . . . . . . 321

III. The Party and the Opposition . . . . . . 333

1. The State of the Party . . . . . . . . . 333

2. The Results of the Discussion . . . . . . . 342

3. The Fundamental Divergences Between the Partyand the Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . 346

4. What Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

IV. General Summary . . . . . . . . . . . 361

CONTENTSX

Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report ofthe Central Committee, December 7 . . . . . . 364

I. Concerning Rakovsky’s Speech . . . . . . 364

II. Concerning Kamenev’s Speech . . . . . . 367

III. The Summing Up . . . . . . . . . . 379

STATEMENT TO FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTSCONCERNING THE COUNTERFEIT “ARTICLES BYSTALIN” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387

Biographical Chronicle (August-December 1927) . . . . . 404


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GRAIN PROCUREMENTS AND THE PROSPECTS FORTHE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FromStatements Made in Various Parts of Siberia in January1928. (Brief Record) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

FIRST RESULTS OF THE PROCUREMENT CAMPAIGNAND THE FURTHER TASKS OF THE PARTY. ToAll Organisations of the C.P.S.U.(B.) . . . . . . 12

GREETINGS TO THE RED ARMY ON ITS TENTH AN-NIVERSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

THREE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF THE RED ARMY.Speech Delivered at a Plenum of the Moscow Soviet Heldin Honour of the Tenth Anniversary of the Red Army,February 25, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

THE WORK OF THE APRIL JOINT PLENUM OF THECENTRAL COMMITTEE AND CENTRAL CONTROLCOMMISSION. Report Delivered at a Meeting of theActive of the Moscow Organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.),April 13, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

I. Self-Criticism . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

II. The Question of Grain Procurement . . . . 42

III. The Shakhty Affair . . . . . . . . . . 57

IV. General Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . 67

CONTENTSVIII

GREETINGS TO THE WORKERS OF KOSTROMA 69

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OFTHE ALL-UNION LENINIST YOUNG COMMUNISTLEAGUE, May 16, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . 70

I. Strengthen the Readiness for Action of theWorking Class . . . . . . . . . . . 71

II. Organise Mass Criticism from Below . . . 75

III. The Youth Must Master Science . . . . . 79

TO KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA. On Its Third Anni-versary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

TO THE SVERDLOV UNIVERSITY. On Its Tenth Anni-versary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

ON THE GRAIN FRONT. From a Talk to Students of theInstitute of Red Professors, the Communist Academyand the Sverdlov University, May 28, 1928 . . . . . 85

LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY AFFAIRSSTUDY CIRCLE AT THE COMMUNIST ACADEMY 102

LENIN AND THE QUESTION OF THE ALLIANCEWITH THE MIDDLE PEASANT. Reply to Comrade S. 105

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OFTHE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Reply to Frumkin.(With Reference to Frumkin’s Letter of June 15, 1928) 121

AGAINST VULGARISING THE SLOGAN OF SELF-CRITICISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

PLENUM OF THE C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.). July 4-12, 1928 . 145The Programme of the Comintern. Speech Deliv-

ered on July 5, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Industrialisation and the Grain Problem. SpeechDelivered on July 9, 1928 . . . . . . . . . 165

On the Bond between the Workers and Peasantsand On State Farms. From a Speech Deliveredon July 11, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . 197

CONTENTS IX

RESULTS OF THE JULY PLENUM OF THE C.C.,C.P.S.U.(B.). Report to a Meeting of the Active of theLeningrad Organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.), July 13,1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

I. The Comintern . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

1. Major Problems of the Sixth Congress of theComintern . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

2. The Programme of the Comintern . . . . . 211

II. Questions of Socialist Construction in theU.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

1. Grain Procurement Policy. . . . . . . . . 213

2. Training of Cadres for the Work of Industrialconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

III. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

TO THE LENINGRAD OSOAVIAKHIM . . . . . . 228

LETTER TO COMRADE KUIBYSHEV . . . . . . . 229

TO THE MEMORY OF COMRADE I. I. SKVORTSOV-STEPANOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

THE RIGHT DANGER IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.). SpeechDelivered at the Plenum of the Moscow Committee andMoscow Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.),October 19, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

REPLY TO COMRADE SH. . . . . . . . . . . . 249

TO THE LENINIST YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE.Greetings on the Day of the Tenth Anniversary of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League . . . . . 252

ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CON-GRESS OF WORKING WOMEN AND PEASANTWOMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE COUNTRY AND THERIGHT DEVIATION IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.). SpeechDelivered at the Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.),November 19, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

CONTENTSX

I. The Rate of Development of Industry . . . 256

II. The Grain Problem . . . . . . . . . 267

III. Combating Deviations and Conciliationtowards Them . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

TO THE WORKERS OF THE “KATUSHKA” FACTORY,TO THE WORKERS OF THE YARTSEVO FAC-TORY, SMOLENSK GUBERNIA . . . . . . . 303

TO THE WORKERS OF THE KRASNY PROFINTERNFACTORY, BEZHITSA . . . . . . . . . . . 305

ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FRUNZEMILITARY ACADEMY OF THE WORKERS’ ANDPEASANTS’ RED ARMY . . . . . . . . . . 306

THE RIGHT DANGER IN THE GERMAN COMMUNISTPARTY. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Presidiumof the E.C.C.I., December 19, 1928 . . . . . . . 307

I. The Problem of the Capitalist Stabilisation . . 308

II. The Problem of the Class Battles of the Pro-letariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

III. The Problem of the German Communist Party 315

IV. The Rights in the C.P.G. and in the C.P.S.U.(B.) 320

V. The Drafts for the Open and Closed Letters . . 323

REPLY TO KUSHTYSEV . . . . . . . . . . . 325

THEY HAVE SUNK TO THE DEPTHS . . . . . . 327

BUKHARIN’S GROUP AND THE RIGHT DEVIA-TION IN OUR PARTY. From Speeches Delivered ata Joint Meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C. andthe Presidium of the C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) at the End ofJanuary and the Beginning of February 1929. (BriefRecord) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332

REPLY TO BILL-BELOTSERKOVSKY . . . . . . . 341

TO THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF THEKRASNY TREUGOLNIK FACTORY . . . . . . 345

CONTENTS XI

TELEGRAM TO THE RED ARMY MEN, COMMANDERSAND POLITICAL OFFICERS OF THE FIRST REDCOSSACK REGIMENT, PROSKUROV . . . . . . 346

GREETINGS TO SELSKOKHOZYAISTVENNAYAGAZETA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND LENINISM. Reply toComrades Meshkov, Kovalchuk, and Others . . . . . 348

1. The Concept “Nation” . . . . . . . . . 348

2. The Rise and Development of Nations . . . 350

3. The Future of Nations and of National Languages 356

4. The Policy of the Party on the National Question 365

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

Biographical Chronicle . . . . . . . . . . . . 389


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THE RIGHT DEVIATION IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.). SpeechDelivered at the Plenum of the Central Committee andCentral Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.) inApril 1929. (Verbatim Report) . . . . . . . . . 1

I. One Line or Two Lines? . . . . . . . . . 3

II. Class Changes and Our Disagreements . . . . 11

III. Disagreements in Regard to the Comintern . . 21

IV. Disagreements in Regard to Internal Policy . . 29

a) The Class Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . 30

b) The Intensification of the Class Struggle . . . . . 37

c) The Peasantry . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

d) NEP and Market Relations . . . . . . . . 46

e) The So-Called “Tribute” . . . . . . . . . 52f) The Rate of Development of Industry and the New Forms

of the Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60g) Bukharin as a Theoretician . . . . . . . . . 72

h) A Five-Year Plan or a Two-Year Plan . . . . . 84

i) The Question of the Crop Area . . . . . . . 87

j) Grain Procurements . . . . . . . . . . . 91

k) Foreign Currency Reserves and Grain Imports . . . 98

V. Questions of Party Leadership . . . . . . . . 101

a) The Factionalism of Bukharin’s Group . . . . . 102

b) Loyalty and Collective Leadership . . . . . . 104

c) The Fight Against the Right Deviation . . . . . 109

VI. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

CONTENTSVIII

EMULATION AND LABOUR ENTHUSIASM OF THEMASSES. Foreword to E. Mikulina’s Pamphlet “Emula-tion of the Masses” . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

TO COMRADE FELIX KON. Copy to Comrade Kolotilov,Secretary, Regional Bureau of the Central Committee,Ivanovo-Voznesensk Region . . . . . . . . . . 118

TO THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE OF THEUKRAINE ON ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY . . . 122

ENTRY IN THE LOG-BOOK OF THE CRUISER “CHER-VONA UKRAINA” . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

A YEAR OF GREAT CHANGE. On the Occasion of theTwelfth Anniversary of the October Revolution . . . 124

I. In the Sphere of Productivity of Labour . . . . 125

II. In the Sphere of Industrial Construction . . . . 127

III. In the Sphere of Agricultural Development . . . 131

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE NEWSPAPERTREVOGA, ORGAN OF THE SPECIAL FAR EASTERNARMY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

A NECESSARY CORRECTION . . . . . . . . . 143

TO ALL ORGANISATIONS AND COMRADES WHO SENTGREETINGS ON THE OCCASION OF COMRADESTALIN’S FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY . . . . . . . 146

CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF AGRARIAN POLICYIN THE U.S.S.R. Speech Delivered at a Conference ofMarxist Students of Agrarian Questions, December 27,1929 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

I. The Theory of “Equilibrium” . . . . . . . 149

II. The Theory of “Spontaneity” in Socialist Construc-

tion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

CONTENTS IX

III. The Theory of the “Stability” of Small-PeasantFarming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

IV. Town and Country . . . . . . . . . . . 162

V. The Nature of Collective Farms . . . . . . 167

VI. The Class Changes and the Turn in the Party’sPolicy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

VII. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

LETTER TO A. M. GORKY . . . . . . . . . . 179

CONCERNING THE POLICY OF ELIMINATING THEKULAKS AS A CLASS . . . . . . . . . . 184

REPLY TO THE SVERDLOV COMRADES . . . . . 190

I. The Sverdlov Students’ Questions . . . . . . 190

II. Comrade Stalin’s Reply . . . . . . . . . 192

DIZZY WITH SUCCESS. Concerning Questions of the Col-lective-Farm Movement . . . . . . . . . . . 197

LETTER TO COMRADE BEZYMENSKY . . . . . . 206

REPLY TO COLLECTIVE-FARM COMRADES . . . . 207

TO THE FIRST GRADUATES OF THE INDUSTRIALACADEMY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

REPLY TO COMRADE M. RAFAIL. (Regional Trade-UnionCouncil, Leningrad.) Copy to Comrade Kirov, SecretaryRegional Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) . . . . . 237

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY WORKS, ROSTOV . . 240

TRACTOR WORKS, STALINGRAD . . . . . . . . 241

POLITICAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TOTHE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.),June 27, 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

CONTENTSX

I. The Growing Crisis of World Capitalism and theExternal Situation of the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . 242

1. The World Economic Crisis . . . . . . . . . 244

2. The Intensification of the Contradictions of Capitalism . . 254

3. The Relations Between the U.S.S.R. and the CapitalistStates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

II. The Increasing Advance of Socialist Construction andthe Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . 269

1. The Growth of the National Economy as a Whole . . . 2702. Successes in Industrialisation . . . . . . . . . 2723. The Key Position of Socialist Industry and Its Rate of

Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2754. Agriculture and the Grain Problem . . . . . . . 2825. The Turn of the Peasantry Towards Socialism and the Rate

of Development of State Farms and Collective Farms . . 2886. The Improvement in the Material and Cultural Conditions of

the Workers and Peasants . . . . . . . . . . 2997. Difficulties of Growth the Class Struggle and the Offensive

of Socialism Along the Whole Front . . . . . . . 3098. The Capitalist or the Socialist System of Economy . . . 3269. The Next Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

a) General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334b) Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341c) Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342d) Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

III. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

1. Questions of the Guidance of Socialist Construction . . 3522. Questions of the Guidance of Inner-Party Affairs . . . . 362

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386

Biographical Chronicle (April 1929-June 1930) . . . . 400


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REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE POLITICALREPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TOTHE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.),July 2, 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

LETTER TO COMRADE SHATUNOVSKY . . . . . . 18

LETTERS TO COMRADE CH. . . . . . . . . . . 21

TO COMRADE DEMYAN BEDNY. (Excerpts from a Letter) 24

ANTI-SEMITISM. Reply to an Inquiry of the Jewish NewsAgency in the United States . . . . . . . . . . 30

THE TASKS OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES. Speech Deliv-ered at the First All-Union Conference of Leading Person-nel of Socialist Industry, February 4, 1931 . . . . 31

LETTER TO COMRADE ETCHIN . . . . . . . . . 45

GREETINGS TO THE STAFFS OF AZNEFT AND GROZ-NEFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

TO ELEKTROZAVOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

MAGNITOGORSK IRON AND STEEL WORKS PROJECT,MAGNITOGORSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE ALL-UNION CENTRE OF MACHINE AND TRACTORSTATIONS. TO ALL MACHINE AND TRACTORSTATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

CONTENTSVIII

TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GRAIN TRUST BOARD.TO ALL STATE GRAIN FARMS . . . . . . . 52

NEW CONDITIONS—NEW TASKS IN ECONOMIC CON-STRUCTION. Speech Delivered at a Conference of Busi-ness Executives, June 23, 1931 . . . . . . . . 53

I. Manpower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

II. Wages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

III. The Organisation of Work . . . . . . . . 62

IV. A Working-Class Industrial and Technical In-telligentsia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

V. Signs of a Change of Attitude among the Old In-dustrial and Technical Intelligentsia . . . . . 71

VI. Business Accounting . . . . . . . . . 75

VII. New Methods of Work, New Methods of Manage-ment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

TO THE WORKERS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ANDTECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF AMO . . . . . . 83

TO THE WORKERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE ANDTECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF THE KHARKOVTRACTOR WORKS PROJECT . . . . . . . . 84

TO THE NEWSPAPER TEKHNIKA . . . . . . . . 85

SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE HISTORY OFBOLSHEVISM. Letter to the Editorial Board of theMagazine “Proletarskaya Revolutsia” . . . . . . 86

AUTOMOBILE WORKS, NIZHNI-NOVGOROD . . . . 105

TALK WITH THE GERMAN AUTHOR EMIL LUDWIG,December 13, 1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

TO THE CHIEF OF THE AUTOMOBILE WORKS PROJ-ECT AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE MOLOTOVAUTOMOBILE WORKS, NIZHNI-NOVGOROD . . . 126

CONTENTS IX

TO THE CHIEF OF THE HARVESTER COMBINEWORKS PROJECT AND THE DIRECTOR OF THEHARVESTER COMBINE WORKS, SARATOV. . . 127

REPLY TO OLEKHNOVICH AND ARISTOV. With Ref-erence to the Letter “Some Questions Concerning the His-tory of Bolshevism” Addressed to the Editorial Boardof the Magazine “Proletarskaya Revolutsia” . . . . 128

MAGNITOGORSK IRON AND STEEL WORKS PROJECT,MAGNITOGORSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

REPLY TO THE LETTER OF Mr. RICHARDSON, REP-RESENTATIVE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNEWS AGENCY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

THE IMPORTANCE AND TASKS OF THE COMPLAINTSBUREAUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONS OF RALPH V. BARNESMay 3, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

KUZNETSK IRON AND STEEL WORKS PROJECTKUZNETSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

GREETINGS TO THE SEVENTH ALL-UNION CON-FERENCE OF THE ALL-UNION LENINIST YOUNGCOMMUNIST LEAGUE . . . . . . . . . . . 143

CONGRATULATIONS TO MAXIM GORKY . . . . . 144

TO THE BUILDERS OF THE DNIEPER HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER STATION . . . . . . . . 145

GREETINGS TO LENINGRAD . . . . . . . . . 146

LETTER TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE NEWS-PAPER PRAVDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

MR. CAMPBELL STRETCHES THE TRUTH . . . . . 148

Record of the Talk with Mr. Campbell, January 28, 1929 150

THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OGPU . . . 160

CONTENTSX

JOINT PLENUM OF THE C.C. AND C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.),January 7-12, 1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

The Results of the First Five-Year Plan. Report Deliv-ered on January 7, 1933 . . . . . . . . 163

I. The International Significance of the Five-YearPlan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

II. The Fundamental Task of the Five-Year Planand the Way to Its Fulfilment . . . . . . 174

III. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Yearsin the Sphere of Industry . . . . . . . . 180

IV. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Yearsin the Sphere of Agriculture . . . . . . . 191

V. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Yearsas Regards Improving the Material Conditions ofthe Workers and Peasants . . . . . . . . 199

VI. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Yearsas Regards Trade Turnover between Town andCountry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

VII. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Yearsin the Sphere of the Struggle against the Remnantsof the Hostile Classes . . . . . . . . . 211

VIII. General Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . 217

Work in the Countryside. Speech Delivered on January11, 1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

TO RABOTNITSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

LETTER TO COMRADE I. N. BAZHANOV . . . . . 241

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIRST ALL-UNIONCONGRESS OF COLLECTIVE-FARM SHOCK BRI-GADERS, February 19, 1933 . . . . . . . . . 242

I. The Collective-Farm Path Is the Only Right Path 242

II. Our Immediate Task—To Make All the CollectiveFarmers Prosperous . . . . . . . . . . . 252

III. Miscellaneous Remarks . . . . . . . . . . 257

CONTENTS XI

GREETINGS TO THE RED ARMY ON ITS FIFTEENTHANNIVERSARY. To the Revolutionary Military Coun-cil of the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

REPLY TO A LETTER FROM Mr. BARNES, March 20,1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

TO COMRADE S. M. BUDYONNY . . . . . . . . 266

TALK WITH COLONEL ROBINS, May 13, 1933. (BriefRecord) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

GREETINGS ON THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARYOF THE ALL-UNION LENINIST YOUNG COMMU-NIST LEAGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

TALK WITH Mr. DURANTY, CORRESPONDENT OFTHE NEW YORK TIMES, December 25, 1933 . . . 282

REPORT TO THE SEVENTEENTH PARTY CONGRESSON THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEEOF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), January 26, 1934 . . . . . 288

I. The Continuing Crisis of World Capitalism and theExternal Situation of the Soviet Union . . . . 288

1. The Course of the Economic Crisis in the CapitalistCountries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

2. The Growing Tension in the Political Situation inthe Capitalist Countries . . . . . . . . . 297

3. The Relations between the U.S.S.R. and the Capital-ist States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

II. The Continuing Progress of the National Economyand the Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R. . . . 312

1. The Progress of Industry . . . . . . . . . 3162. The Progress of Agriculture . . . . . . . . 3243. The Rise in the Material and Cultural Standard of

the Working People . . . . . . . . . . 3404. The Progress of Trade Turnover, and Transport . . 346

III. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

1. Questions of Ideological and Political Leadership . . 3552. Questions of Organisational Leadership. . . . . 372

CONTENTSXII

TO COMRADE SHAPOSHNIKOV, CHIEF AND COM-ISSAR OF THE FRUNZE MILITARY ACADEMYOF THE WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ RED ARMY.TO COMRADE SHCHADENKO, ASSISTANT FORPOLITICAL WORK . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

INSTEAD OF A REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION, January 31,1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Biographical Chronicle (July 1930-January 1934) . . . 409

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CONTENTS

PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

ON AN ARTICLE BY ENGELS July 19, 1934 . . . 11

MARXISM VERSUS LIBERALISM An Interviewwith H. G. Wells, July 23, 1934 . . . . . . . . . . 21

TALK WITH THE METAL PRODUCERS Decem-ber 26, 1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

DECISIONS ON THE MANUALS OF HISTORY . . 51

REMARKS ON A SUMMARY OF THE MANUALOF THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.S.R. August 8,1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

REMARKS ON THE SUMMARY OF THE MANUALOF MODERN HISTORY August 9, 1934 . . . . . . 61

THE DEATH OF KIROV December 1, 1934 . . . . 63

LETTER TO COMRADE CHOUMIATSKY . . . . . 67

ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE RECEPTION OFTHE 1st MAY PARADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES FROM THERED ARMY ACADEMIES Delivered in theKremlin May 6, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

ADDRESS TO THE SOLEMN MEETING ON THEOPENING OF THE L. M. KAGANOVICH METROMay 14, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

SPEECH DELIVERED AT A RECEPTION GIVENBY LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

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AND THE GOVERNMENT TO WOMEN COL-LECTIVE FARM SHOCK WORKERS Novem-ber 10, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

SPEECH AT THE FIRST ALL-UNION CON-FERENCE OF STAKHANOVITES November 17,1935. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

SPEECH AT A CONFERENCE OF HARVESTER-COMBINE OPERATORS December 1, 1935 . . . . 111

ADDRESS TO THE COMMISSION OF THESECOND ALL-UNION CONGRESS OF KOL-KHOZINES February 15, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . 121

SPEECH AT A CONFERENCE OF THE FORE-MOST COLLECTIVE FARMERS OF TAJIKSTANAND TURKMENISTAN December 4, 1935 . . . . . 123

CONFERENCE OF THE AVANT-GARDIST MENAND WOMEN OF TAJIKSTAN AND OF TURK-MENISTAN WITH THE DIRECTORS OF THEPARTY AND THE STATE December 4, 1935 . . . 127

INTERVIEW BETWEEN J. STALIN AND ROYHOWARD March 1, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

TELEGRAM FROM THE CENTRAL COMMIT-TEE OF THE C.P.S.U.(B) TO THE CENTRALCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTYOF SPAIN October, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

ON THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF THEU.S.S.R. Report delivered at the ExtraordinaryEighth Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R.November 25, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

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CONSTITUTION (FUNDAMENTAL LAW) OFTHE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUB-LICS With amendments adopted by the First,Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and EighthSessions of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.Kremlin, Moscow. December 5, 1936 . . . . . . . 199

REPORT AND SPEECH IN REPLY TO DEBATEAT THE PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COM-MITTEE OF THE C.P.S.U.(B) March 3- 5, 1937

DEFECTS IN PARTY WORK AND MEASURESFOR LIQUIDATING TROTSKYITE AND OTHERDOUBLE-DEALERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

SPEECH IN REPLY TO DEBATE . . . . . . . . . 275

LETTER TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MANUALOF THE "HISTORY OF THE COMMUNISTPARTY" May, 1937 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

ADDRESS TO THE RECEPTION OF DIRECTORSAND STAKHANOVITES OF THE METAL IN-DUSTRY AND THE COAL MINING INDUSTRYOctober 29, 1937 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMRADE J. STALINAT A MEETING OF VOTERS OF THE STALINELECTORAL AREA, MOSCOW December 11,1937. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

ON THE FINAL VICTORY OF SOCIALISM INTHE U.S.S.R. January 18 - February 12, 1938 . . 315

LETTER ON PUBLICATIONS FOR CHILDRENDIRECTED TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEEOF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST YOUTHFebruary 16, 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

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SPEECH DELIVERED AT A RECEPTION INTHE KREMLIN TO HIGHER EDUCATIONALWORKERS May 17, 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE EXCLUSIONOF KOLKHOZINES FROM THE KOLKHOZESDecree of the Council of People's Commissarsof the U.S.S.R. and of the Central Committeeof the C.P.S.U.(B) April 19, 1938 . . . . . . . . . 333

ON THE INCORRECT DISTRIBUTION OF RE-VENUES IN THE KOLKHOZES Decree of theCouncil of People's Commissars of the U.S.S.R.and of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B)April 19, 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

ON THE TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONSCONCERNING INDEPENDENT OPERATORSDecree of the Council of People's Commissarsof the U.S.S.R. and of the Central Committeeof the C.P.S.U.(B) April 19, 1938 . . . . . . . . . 349

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE OF THE WORKERS'AND PEASANTS' RED ARMY February 23,1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE CENTRALCOMMITTEE TO THE EIGHTEENTH CON-GRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B) March 10, 1939 . . . 355

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

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