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Preface to Volume One . . . . . . . . . . . . XV
Authors 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 NATIONAL
QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A LETTER FROM KUTAIS . . . . . . . . . . 55
A LETTER FROM KUTAIS (From the Same Comrade) . . 59
THE PROLETARIAN CLASS AND THE PROLETARIAN
PARTY (Concerning Paragraph One of the Party Rules) 63
WORKERS OF THE CAUCASUS, IT IS TIME TO TAKE
REVENGE! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
LONG LIVE INTERNATIONAL FRATERNITY! . . . 82
TO CITIZENS. LONG LIVE THE RED FLAG! . . . . 85
CONTENTS VIII
BRIEFLY ABOUT THE DISAGREEMENTS IN THE
PARTY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
ARMED INSURRECTION AND OUR TACTICS . . 133
THE PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT
AND 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 AGRARIAN
PROGRAMME (Speech Delivered at the Seventh Sitting
of the Fourth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., April 13
(26), 1906) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
ON THE PRESENT SITUATION (Speech Delivered at the
Fifteenth 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 CONGRESS
OF THE WORKERS PARTY . . . . . . . . 252
THE CLASS STRUGGLE . . . . . . . . . . . 280
CONTENTS IX
FACTORY LEGISLATION AND THE PROLETARIAN
STRUGGLE (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-
SKYS PAMPHLET THE DRIVING FORCES AND
PROSPECTS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1
THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN ST. PETERSBURG AND
THE 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 THE
GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
COMRADE G. TELIA. In Memoriam . . . . . . . 28
THE ADVANCED PROLETARIAT AND THE FIFTH
PARTY CONGRESS . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
MUDDLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
OUR CAUCASIAN CLOWNS . . . . . . . . . . . 39
THE DISPERSION OF THE DUMA AND THE TASKS
OF THE PROLETARIAT . . . . . . . . . . 42
THE LONDON CONGRESS OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-
DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY (Notes of a Dele-
gate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
I. The Composition of the Congress . . . . . . 49
II. The Agenda. Report of the Central Committee
Report of the Group in the Duma . . . . . . 53
III. The Non-Proletarian Parties . . . . . . . . 61
IV. The Labour Congress . . . . . . . . . . 70
CONTENTS VIII
MANDATE TO THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEPUTIES
IN THE THIRD STATE DUMA, Adopted at a Meeting
of 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Flunkey Socialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Hypocritical Zubatovites . . . . . . . . . . . 134
1909
THE CONFERENCE AND THE WORKERS . . . . . 138
THE PARTY CRISIS AND OUR TASKS . . . . . 150
THE FORTHCOMING GENERAL STRIKE . . . . 163
PARTY NEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Resolution of the Baku Committee on the Disagree-
ments on the Enlarged Editorial Board of Proletary 170
THE DECEMBER STRIKE AND THE DECEMBER
AGREEMENT (On the Occasion of the Fifth Anniversary) 174
1910
LETTERS FROM THE CAUCASUS . . . . . . . . 179
I. Baku . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
The Situation in the Oil Industry . . . . . . 179
Local Government in the Oil Fields . . . . . 182
The State of the Organisation . . . . . . . . 186
Legal Possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . 188
CONTENTS IX
II. Tiflis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Programmatic Liquidationism . . . . . . 194
Tactical Liquidationism . . . . . . . . 198
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE BAKU COMMITTEE
ON JANUARY 22, 1910 (For the Forthcoming General
Party Conference) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
I. Political Agitation and the Actual Consolidation
of the Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
II. Representation at the Forthcoming General Party
Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
AUGUST BEBEL, LEADER OF THE GERMAN
WORKERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
A LETTER TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
PARTY 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 TO
THEIR LABOUR DEPUTY . . . . . . . . 257
THE WILL OF THE VOTERS DELEGATES . . . . 260
THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS IN THE WORK-
ERS CURIA OF ST. PETERSBURG . . . . . 263
1. The Election of the Voters Delegates . . . . . 263
2. The Election of Electors . . . . . . . . . . 264
CONTENTS X
3. Two Unities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
4. The Election of the Duma Deputy . . . . . 267
TODAY IS ELECTION DAY . . . . . . . . . . . 269
1913
TO ALL THE WORKING MEN AND WORKING WOMEN
OF RUSSIA! January 9 . . . . . . . . . . 273
THE ELECTIONS IN ST. PETERSBURG (A Letter From
St. Petersburg) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
I. The Workers Curia . . . . . . . . . . 280
1. The Fight for Elections . . . . . . . . . 280
2. The Deputys Mandate . . . . . . . . . 282
3. Unity as a Mask, and the Election of the
Duma Deputy . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
II. The City Curia . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
III. Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
ON THE ROAD TO NATIONALISM (A Letter From the Cau-
casus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
MARXISM AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION . . . 300
I. The Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
II. The National Movement . . . . . . . . . 313
III. Presentation of the Question . . . . . . . 323
IV. Cultural-National Autonomy . . . . . . . . 331
V. 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-DEMOCRATIC
GROUP 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 RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
ABOLITION OF NATIONAL DISABILITIES . . . . . 17
EITHEROR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
AGAINST FEDERALISM. . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TWO RESOLUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
THE LAND TO THE PEASANTS . . . . . . . . 36
MAY DAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. Speech Delivered
at a Meeting in Vasilyevsky Ostrov, April 18 (May 1),
1917. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
THE CONFERENCE IN THE MARIINSKY PALACE . 46
THE SEVENTH (APRIL) CONFERENCE OF THE
R.S.D.L.P (BOLSHEVIKS), April 24-29, 1917 . . 51
1. Speech in Support of Comrade Lenins Resolution
on the Current Situation, April 24 . . . . . . 51
CONTENTS VIII
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 AND
SOLDIERS OF PETROGRAD . . . . . . . . 101
AT THE DEMONSTRATION . . . . . . . . . . 105
CLOSE THE RANKS! . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
SPEECHES DELIVERED AT AN EMERGENCY CONFER-
ENCE OF THE PETROGRAD ORGANIZATION OF
THE R.S.D.L.P. (BOLSHEVIKS), July 16-20, 1917 . 114
1. Report of the Central Committee on the July
Events, 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 AND
SOLDIERS OF PETROGRAD . . . . . . . . 145
TWO CONFERENCES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
CONTENTS IX
THE NEW GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . 155
THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS . . . 158
SPEECHES DELIVERED AT THE SIXTH CONGRESS
OF THE R.S.D.L.P. (BOLSHEVIKS), July 26-August
3, 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 the
Report 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 OF
RUSSIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 DEFEAT
AT 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
CONTENTS X
YELLOW ALLIANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
EITHEROR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 MOBILIZINGPRE-
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 THE
FINNISH SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY,
HELSINGFORS, November 14, 1917. . . . . . . 1
REPLY TO UKRAINIAN COMRADES IN THE REAR
AND 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 in
the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, December
22, 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 QUESTION
OF PEACE WITH THE GERMANS, January 11,
1918 (Summary Record in the Minutes) . . . . . 28
THE KIEV BOURGEOIS RADA . . . . . . . . . 29
CONTENTS VIII
SPEECHES DELIVERED AT THE THIRD ALL-RUS-
SIAN CONGRESS OF SOVIETS OF WORKERS,
SOLDIERS AND PEASANTS DEPUTIES, January
10-18, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1. Report on the National Question, January 15
(Newspaper report) . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2. Draft Resolution on the Federal Institutions of
the Russian Republic . . . . . . . . . . 33
3. Reply to the Discussion on the Report on the
National 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 PEOPLES SECRETARIAT,
UKRAINIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC, February 21,
1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
NOTE SENT BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE PEOPLES
SECRETARIAT, UKRAINIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC,
February 24, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
THE UKRAINIAN KNOT . . . . . . . . . . . 46
A TATAR-BASHKIR SOVIET REPUBLIC . . . . . 50
TRANSCAUCASIAN COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARIES
UNDER 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 National
Minorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 Russian
Federation. Federalism in Russiaa Transitional
Step to Socialist Unitarism . . . . . . . . 75
ONE IMMEDIATE TASK . . . . . . . . . . . 76
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE RUSSIAN SOCIALIST FEDERATIVE SOVIET
REPUBLIC. Draft Approved by the Commission Ap-
pointed by the All-Russian C.E.C. for Drafting the
Constitution of the Soviet Republic . . . . . . . 81
TELEGRAM TO THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF SOVIETS
OF 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 dtat in the Ukraine . . . . 85
Causes of the Coup dtat . . . . . . . . 86
SPEECHES DELIVERED AT A CONFERENCE ON THE
CONVENING OF A CONSTITUENT CONGRESS OF
SOVIETS 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 CAUCASUS
From the Peoples Commissariat for the Affairs of Na-
tionalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
CONTENTS X
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 PEOPLES COM-
MISSARS, September 6, 1918 . . . . . . . . 131
TELEGRAM TO VOROSHILOV, COMMANDER OF THE
FRONT, 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 MEETING
OF THE MOSCOW SOVIET OF WORKERS, SOL-
DIERS AND PEASANTS DEPUTIES ON THE
SITUATION ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT, October
29, 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 NATIONAL
QUESTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 October
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
PARTITION WALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
DONT 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 EASTERN
FRONT, January 5, 1919 . . . . . . . . . . 190
REPORT TO V. I. LENIN. . . . . . . . . . . 194
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A JOINT MEETING OF
PARTY AND SOVIET ORGANIZATIONS IN VYAT-
KA, January 19, 1919 (Record in the Minutes) . . 200
REPORT TO COMRADE LENIN BY THE COMMISSION
OF THE PARTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND
THE COUNCIL OF DEFENCE ON THE REASONS
FOR THE FALL OF PERM IN DECEMBER 1918 . 202
General Picture of the Disaster . . . . . . . 202
The Third Army and the Reserves . . . . . . 209
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Control System of the Army and Instructions of
the Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
CONTENTS XII
Insecurity of the Rear and Work of the Party and
Soviet Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Supply and Evacuation Agencies . . . . . . 224
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Total Losses of Materiel and Men . . . . . . 229
Measures Taken to Strengthen the Front . . . . 230
THE GOVERNMENTS POLICY ON THE NATIONAL QUES-
TION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
TO THE SOVIETS AND THE PARTY ORGANIZATIONS
OF TURKESTAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
TWO CAMPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
OUR TASKS IN THE EAST . . . . . . . . . . 245
TWO YEARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
IMPERIALISMS RESERVES . . . . . . . . . . 254
EXCERPT FROM A SPEECH ON THE MILITARY QUES-
TION DELIVERED AT THE EIGHTH CONGRESS
OF THE R.C.P.(B.), March 21, 1919 . . . . . 258
THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF STATE CONTROL. Report
Delivered 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-EXTRAORDINARY
OF 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 . . . . . . . 275
2. The Enemys Forces . . . . . . . . . . . 276
3. The Enemys Calculations . . . . . . . . . 277
4. The Situation at the Front . . . . . . . . 278
5. The Navy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
6. Summing up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
LETTER TO V. I. LENIN ABOUT THE SITUATION
ON THE WESTERN FRONT, August 11, 1919 . . 282
LETTER TO V. I. LENIN FROM THE SOUTHERN
FRONT, 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 ORGANIZATIONS
OF THE PEOPLES OF THE EAST, November 22, 1919 290
GREETINGS TO PETROGRAD FROM THE SOUTHERN
FRONT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 LABOUR
ARMY, March 7, 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . 304
SPEECHES AT THE FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY (BOLSHEVIKS) OF THE
UKRAINE, 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 Economic
Policy, March 20 . . . . . . . . . . . 314
4. Speech at the Closing of the Conference, March 23 315
CONTENTS XIV
LENIN AS THE ORGANIZER AND LEADER OF THE
RUSSIAN COMMUNIST PARTY . . . . . . . 317
I. Lenin as the Organizer of the Russian Commu-
nist Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
II. Lenin as the Leader of the Russian Communist
Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A MEETING CALLED BY THE
MOSCOW COMMITTEE, R.C.P.(B.) ON THE OCCA-
SION OF V. I. LENINS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY,
April 23, 1920 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
THE ENTENTES 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 the
C.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 THE
NATIONAL 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
AUTHORS PREFACE. To a Collection of Articles on the
National Question, Published in 1920 . . . . . . 383
THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE REPUBLIC.
Report Delivered at a Regional Conference of Communist
Organizations of the Don and the Caucasus, held in
Vladikavkaz, October 27, 1920 . . . . . . . . 387
THREE YEARS OF PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP.
Report Delivered at a Celebration Meeting of the Baku
Soviet, 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
CONTENTS XVI
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLES OF THE TEREK
REGION, 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 CONFERENCE
OF 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 the
Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
II. Conscious Democracy and Forced Democracy . . 8
THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF THE PARTY IN THE
NATIONAL QUESTION. Theses for the Tenth Congress
of the R.C.P.(B.) Endorsed by the Central Committee
of 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.), March
8-16, 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
CONTENTS VIII
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 THE
RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Synopsis of a Pamphlet . . 63
I. Definition of Terms and Subject of Investigation 63
II. 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 of
Georgia, July 6, 1921 . . . . . . . . . . . 90
THE PARTY BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING POWER . 103
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE NATIONAL
POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS . . . 115
THE PROSPECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
1922
TO PRAVDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRAVDA (Reminis-
cences) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
1. The Lena Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
2. The Foundation of Pravda . . . . . . . . . 132
3. The Organisational Significance of Pravda . . . . 134
COMRADE LENIN ON VACATION. NOTES . . . . 136
GREETINGS TO PETROGRAD, TO THE SOVIET OF
DEPUTIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
THE QUESTION OF THE UNION OF THE INDEPEND-
ENT NATIONAL REPUBLICS. Interview With a
Pravda Correspondent . . . . . . . . . . . 141
CONTENTS IX
THE UNION OF THE SOVIET REPUBLICS. Report
Delivered 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 First
Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R., December 30, 1922 159
1923
CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE STRATEGY
AND 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 the
Central Committee of the Party . . . . . . . . 184
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
CONTENTS X
THE TWELFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), April
17-25, 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 Committees
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 RESPONSIBLE
WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICS AND
REGIONS, 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 Peoples 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 QUESTION
OF THE MIDDLE STRATA . . . . . . . . . 349
THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CON-
GRESS OF WORKING WOMEN AND PEASANT
WOMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
SPEECH AT A CELEBRATION MEETING AT THE MIL-
ITARY ACADEMY, November 17, 1923 (Brief News-
paper Report) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
THE PARTYS TASKS. Report Delivered at an Enlarged
Meeting of the Krasnaya Presnya District Committee of
the R.C.P.(B.) With Group Organisers, Members of the
Debating Society and of the Bureau of the Party Units,
December 2, 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Discussiona Sign of the Partys 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
CONTENTS XII
THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY
PREOBRAZHENSKY AND SAPRONOV, AND
TROTSKYS LETTER . . . . . . . . . . . 380
The Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
Rafail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Preobrazhenskys Article . . . . . . . . . . 387
Sapronovs Article . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Trotskys Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail) . . . 398
GREETINGS TO THE NEWSPAPER COMMUNIST . . 402
Appendices
Appendix 1. Declaration on the Formation of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics . . . . . . . . 403
Appendix 2. Treaty on the Formation of the Union of
Soviet 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 the
Second All-Union Congress of Soviets, January 26, 1924. 47
LENIN. A Speech Delivered at a Memorial Meeting of the
Kremlin 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
CONTENTS VIII
THE FOUNDATIONS OF LENINISM. Lectures Delivered
at 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.), May
23-31, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Organisational Report of the Central Committee, May 24 199
1. The Mass Organisations That Link the Party With the
Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
2. The State Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . 206
3. The Composition of the Party. The Lenin Enrolment 210
4. The composition of Leading Party Bodies, Cadres and
the Younger Party Element . . . . . . . . . 212
5. The Work of the Party in the Sphere or Agitation and
Propaganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
6. The Work of the Party in the Registration, Alloca-
tion and Promotion of Forces . . . . . . . 218
7. Inner-Party Life . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
8. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Reply to the Discussion, May 27 . . . . . . . 231
THE RESULTS OF THE THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF
THE 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 the
Working 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 Delivered
at a Meeting of the Polish Commission of the Comintern,
July 3, 1924 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
A LETTER TO COMRADE DEMYAN BEDNY. July
15, 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 and
the Ententes London Agreement on Reparations 298
3. Strengthening of the Revolutionary Elements in
the European Labour Movement. Growth of the
International Popularity of the Soviet Union 304
THE PARTYS IMMEDIATE TASKS IN THE COUNTRY-
SIDE. Speech Delivered at a Conference of Secretaries of
Rural Party Units, Called by the Central Committee of
the R.C.P.(B.), October 22, 1924 . . . . . . . . 315
Defects in the Reports From the Localities . . 315
The Partys Chief Defectthe Weakness of Party
Work 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 Around
the Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
CONTENTS X
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 Partys Chief Tasks . . . . . . . . . . 324
Conditions for the Work . . . . . . . . . . 324
The Chief Thing Is To Maintain Contact With the
Millions of Non-Party People . . . . . . . . 325
THE PARTYS TASKS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. Speech
Delivered at the Plenum of the Central Committee of
the 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 the
Plenum 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 TACTICS
OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS. Preface to the Book
On the Road to October . . . . . . . . . . 374
I. The External and Internal Setting for the October
Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
II. Two Specific Features of the October Revolu-
tionor October and Trotskys 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 ILYICHS BEHESTS! . . 1
TO THE TEACHERS CONGRESS . . . . . . . . 3
THE TASKS OF THE MAGAZINE KRASNAYA MOLO-
DYOZH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A PLENUM OF THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND THE CENTRAL
CONTROL 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 DOV. . . . . . . . 16
DYMOVKA. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the
Organising Bureau of the Central Committee of the
R.C.P.(B.), January 26, 1925. . . . . . . . . 19
CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE PROLETARIAT
AND THE PEASANTRY. Speech Delivered at the Thir-
teenth Gubernia Conference of the Moscow Organisation of
the R.C.P.(B.), January 27, 1925. . . . . . . . 25
THE PROSPECTS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF
GERMANY AND THE QUESTION OF BOLSHEVISA-
TION. Interview with Herzog, Member of the C.P.G. . 34
CONTENTS VIII
A LETTER TO COMRADE MERT . . . . . . . 42
INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY . . . . . . . . 48
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) TO
THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE
KUOMINTANG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION AND THE TASKS
OF THE COMMUNIST PARTIES . . . . . . . 51
THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
Speech Delivered in the Czechoslovak Commission of the
E.C.C.I., March 27, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . 58
CONCERNING THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN YUGOSLA-
VIA. Speech Delivered in the Yugoslav Commission of the
E.C.C.I., March 30, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . 69
THE ACTIVE OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE
IN THE COUNTRYSIDE. Speech Delivered at a Meet-
ing of the Organising Bureau of the Central Committee of
the 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 FOURTEENTH
CONFERENCE OF THE R.C.P.(B.); Report Deliv-
ered at a Meeting of the Active of the Moscow Organisation
of the R.C.P.(B.), May 9, 1925 . . . . . . . . 90
I. The International Situation . . . . . . . 91
II. The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Parties
in the Capitalist Countries. . . . . . . . 102
III. The Immediate Tasks of the Communist Elements
in the Colonial and Dependent Countries . . . 107
IV. The Fate of Socialism in the Soviet Union . . 110
V. The Partys Policy in the Countryside . . . 123
VI. The Metal Industry . . . . . . . . . . 130
CONTENTS IX
THE POLITICAL TASKS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE
PEOPLES OF THE EAST. Speech Delivered at a Meet-
ing of Students of the Communist University of the
Toilers of the East, May 18, 1925 . . . . . . . 135
I. The Tasks of the Communist University of the
Toilers of the East in Relation to the Soviet
Republics of the East . . . . . . . . . . 136
II. The Tasks of the Communist University of the
Toilers of the East in Relation to the Colonial
and Dependent Countries of the East . . . . 146
TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
OF KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA . . . . . . . 155
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Speech Delivered at the Sverd-
lov University, June 9, 1925 . . . . . . . . 158
TO THE SVERDLOV UNIVERSITY. On the Occasion of
the Second Graduation of Students of Basic and Trade
Union Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
THE NATIONAL QUESTION ONCE AGAIN. Concerning
the Article by Semich . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE EAST.
Interview Given to Mr. Fuse, Japanese Correspondent
of Nichi-Nichi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
A LETTER TO COMRADE YERMAKOVSKY . . . . 237
INTERVIEW WITH THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CON-
FERENCE OF AGITATION AND PROPAGANDA
DEPARTMENTS, October 14, 1925 . . . . . . . 240
THE TASKS OF THE YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE.
Answers to Questions Submitted by the Editorial Board of
Komsomolskaya Pravda . . . . . . . . . . . 247
SPEECH AT THE FUNERAL OF M. V. FRUNZE, Novem-
ber 3, 1925 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
CONTENTS X
OCTOBER, LENIN, AND THE PROSPECTS OF OUR
DEVELOPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . 269
2. Imperialism, the Colonies and Semi-Colonies . . . . 275
3. Victors and Vanquished . . . . . . . . . . 277
4. The Contradictions between the Victor Countries . . . 284
5. The Capitalist World and the Soviet Union . . . . 288
6. The External Position of the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . 295
7. The Partys Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
II. The Internal Situation in the Soviet Union 304
1. The National Economy as a Whole . . . . . . . 305
2. Industry and Agriculture . . . . . . . . . 321
3. Questions Concerning Trade . . . . . . . . . 325
4. Classes, Their Activity, Their Correlation . . . . . 327
5. Lenins Three Slogans on the Peasant Question . . . 332
6. Two Dangers and Two Deviations In Regard to the Peas-
ant Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
7. The Partys Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
III. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of the
Central Committee, December 23 . . . . . . . 362
1. Sokolnikov and the Dawesation of Our Country . . . 363
2. Kamenev and Our Concessions to the Peasantry . . . 365
3. Whose Miscalculations? . . . . . . . . . . 369
CONTENTS XI
4. How Sokolnikov Protects the Poor Peasants . . . . 370
5. Ideological Struggle or Slander? . . . . . . . 372
6. Concerning NEP . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
7. Concerning State Capitalism. . . . . . . . . 375
8. Zinoviev and the Peasantry . . . . . . . . . 381
9. Concerning the History of the Disagreements . . . 389
10. The Oppositions Platform . . . . . . . . . 397
11. Their Desire for Peace . . . . . . . . . 399
12. 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 of
the 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 System
of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat . . . 33
VI. The Question of the Victory of Socialism in One
Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
VII. The Fight for the Victory of Socialist Construc-
tion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
THE PEASANTRY AS AN ALLY OF THE WORKING
CLASS. Reply to Comrades P. F. Boltnev, V. I. Efremov
and V. I. Ivlev . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING SOCIALISM IN OUR
COUNTRY. Reply to Comrade Pokoyev . . . . 101
CONTENTS VIII
COMRADE KOTOVSKY . . . . . . . . . . . 105
SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE FRENCH COMMISSION
OF THE SIXTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE
E.C.C.I., March 6, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . 106
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST WOMENS DAY . . 114
SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE GERMAN COMMISSION
OF THE SIXTH ENLARGED PLENUM OF THE
E.C.C.I., March 8, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . 115
THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE SOVIET UNION
AND THE POLICY OF THE PARTY. Report to the
Active of the Leningrad Party Organisation on the Work
of 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 Regime
of Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
V. We Must Create Cadres of Builders of Industry 145
VI. We Must Raise the Activity of the Working
Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE, UKRAINIAN C.P.(B.) . . 157
THE BRITISH STRIKE AND THE EVENTS IN POLAND.
Report Delivered at a Meeting of Workers of the Chief
Railway 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 OF
THE 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 and
the Central Control Commission, C.P.S.U.(B.), July
15, 1926 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
F. DZERZHINSKY (In Memory of F. Dzerzhinsky) . . . 203
THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN COMMITTEE. Speech Delivered
at 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 WORKERS
PARTY OF AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . 215
LETTER TO SLEPKOV . . . . . . . . . . . 217
MEASURES FOR MITIGATING THE INNER-PARTY
STRUGGLE. 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.). Theses
for 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 to
Trotskyism on the Basic Question of the Charac-
ter and Prospects of Our Revolution . . . 227
II. The Practical Platform of the Opposition Bloc 232
CONTENTS X
III. The Revolutionary Words and Opportunist
Deeds 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 Opposition
Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
1. The First Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
2. The Second Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 247
3. The Third Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 249
4. The Fourth Stage . . . . . . . . . . . 250
5. Lenin and the Question of Blocs in the Party . . . 252
6. The Process of Decomposition of the Opposition Bloc 254
7. What Is the Opposition Bloc Counting on? . . . . 256
II. The Principal Error of the Opposition Bloc . . 258
1. Preliminary Remarks . . . . . . . . . . 259
2. Leninism or Trotskyism? . . . . . . . . . 264
3. The Resolution of the Fourteenth Conference on the
R.C.P.(B.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
4. The Passing over of the New Opposition to Trots-
kyism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
5. Trotskys 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 the
Opposition Bloc . . . . . . . . . . . 299
IV. Some Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . 306
REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE REPORT ON
THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC DEVIATION IN OUR
PARTY, 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 the
Proletariat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
3. The Unevenness of Development of the Capitalist
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. Trotskys 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. The
Demands 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 in
China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 in
Our Party. Report Delivered on December 7 . . 3
I. Preliminary Remarks . . . . . . . . . 3
1. Contradictions of Inner-Party Development . . 3
2. Sources of Contradictions Within the Party . . . 9
II. Specific Features of the Opposition in the
C.P.S.U.(B.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
III. The Disagreements in the C.P.S.U.(B.) . . 21
1. Questions of Socialist Construction . . . . . 21
2. Factors of the Respite . . . . . . . . 26
3. The Unity and Inseparability of the National and
International Tasks of the Revolution . . . . 28
4. Concerning the History of the Question of Building
Socialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
5. The Special Importance of the Question of Building
Socialism in the U.S.S.R. at the Present Moment 37
6. The Perspectives of the Revolution . . . . . 40
7. How the Question Really Stands . . . . . . 42
8. The Chances of Victory . . . . . . . . . 44
9. Disagreements Over Political Practice . . . . . 47
IV. The Opposition at Work . . . . . . . . 50
V. Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat Praise the Opposition . . . . . 54
CONTENTS VIII
VI. Defeat of the Opposition Bloc . . . . . . 59
VII. The Practical Meaning and Importance of the
Fifteenth 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 65
2. Why the Enemies of the Dictatorship of the Proletar-
iat Praise the Opposition . . . . . . . . 72
3. There Are Errors and Errors . . . . . . . 78
4. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat According to
Zinoviev . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5. Trotskys Oracular Sayings . . . . . . . . 86
6. Zinoviev In the Role of a Schoolboy Quoting Marx,
Engels, Lenin . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7. Revisionism According to Zinoviev . . . . . 100
II. The Question of the Victory of Socialism in
Individual 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 the
U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
1. The Manoeuvres of the Opposition and the
National-Reformism of Lenins Party . . . . 121
2. We are Building and Can Completely Build the
Economic Basis of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. . . 131
3. We are Building Socialism in Alliance With the
World 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 MOSCOW
GUBERNIA PARTY CONFERENCE, January 14, 1927 159
LETTER TO COMRADE ZAITSEV . . . . . . . . 167
CONTENTS IX
TO THE LENA WORKERS . . . . . . . . . . 171
GREETINGS TO THE STALINGRAD NEWSPAPER
BORBA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A MEETING OF WORKERS
OF 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 AND
PEASANTS GOVERNMENT. Reply to Dmitriev . . 182
LETTER TO SHINKEVICH . . . . . . . . . . . 194
SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIFTH ALL-UNION
CONFERENCE OF THE ALL-UNION LENINIST
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, March 29, 1927 . . 196
LETTER TO CHUGUNOV . . . . . . . . . . . 205
THE PARTYS THREE FUNDAMENTAL SLOGANS ON
THE PEASANT QUESTION. Reply to Yansky . . 207
QUESTIONS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION. Theses
for 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 PERIOD
OF PREPARATION FOR OCTOBER. Reply to S. Pok-
rovsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
CONTENTS X
THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA AND THE TASKS OF
THE COMINTERN. Speech Delivered at the Tenth
Sitting. Eighth Plenum of the E.C.C.I., May 24, 1927 . 288
I. Some Minor Questions . . . . . . . . . 288
II. The Agrarian-Peasant Revolution as the Basis
of the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution . . 291
III. The Right Kuomintang in Nanking, Which
Massacres Communists, and the Left Kuomin-
tang in Wuhan, Which Maintains an Alliance
With the Communists . . . . . . . . . 299
IV. Soviets of Workers and Peasants Deputies
in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
V. Two Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
TO THE STUDENTS OF THE COMMUNIST UNIVERSITY
OF 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 AND
CENTRAL CONTROL COMMISSION OF THE
C.P.S.U.(B.), July 29-August 9, 1927 . . . . . . 1
The International Situation and the Defence of the
U.S.S.R. Speech Delivered on August 1 . . . . 3
I. The Attacks of the Opposition on Sections
of the Comintern . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. About China . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
III. The Anglo-Soviet Unity Committee . . . . 39
IV. The Threat of War and the Defence of the
U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Speech Delivered on August 5 . . . . . . . . 63
With Reference to the Oppositions Declaration of
August 8, 1927. Speech Delivered on August 9 . . . 90
INTERVIEW WTTH THE FIRST AMERICAN LABOUR
DELEGATION, September 9, 1927 . . . . . . . 97
I. Questions Put by the Delegation and Comrade
Stalins Answers . . . . . . . . . . . 97
II. Questions Put by Comrade Stalin and the
Delegates Replies . . . . . . . . . . 141
TO COMRADE M. I. ULYANOVA. REPLY TO COMRADE
L. MIKHELSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
CONTENTS VIII
THE POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF THE RUSSIAN
OPPOSITION. Excerpt from a Speech Delivered at a
Joint Meeting of the Presidium of the Executive Com-
mittee of the Comintern and the International Control
Commission, September 27, 1927. . . . . . . . 158
SYNOPSIS OF THE ARTICLE THE INTERNATIONAL
CHARACTER OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION 173
THE TROTSKYIST OPPOSITION BEFORE AND NOW.
Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Joint Plenum of
the Central Committee and Central Control Commission
of the C.P.S.U.(B.), October 23, 1927 . . . . . . 177
I. Some Minor Questions . . . . . . . . 177
II. The Oppositions Platform . . . . . . 183
III. Lenin on Discussions and Oppositions in
General . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
IV. The Opposition and the Third Force . . 188
V. How the Opposition Is Preparing for the
Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
VI. From Leninism to Trotskyism . . . . . . 198
VII. Some of the Most Important Results of the
Partys 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 Tenth
Anniversary of the October Revolution . . . . . . 244
TO THE PARTY CONFERENCE OF THE MOSCOW
MILITARY AREA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
THE PARTY AND THE OPPOSITION. Speech Delivered
at 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Political Report of the Central Committee, December 3 277
I. The Growing Crisis of World Capitalism and
the 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 the
Preparation of New Imperialist Wars . . . . . . 282
3. The State of the World Revolutionary Movement
and 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 the
Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R. . . . . . 298
1. The National Economy as a Whole . . . . . 300
2. The Rate of Development of Our Large-Scale
Socialist Industry . . . . . . . . . . . 307
3. The Rate of Development of Our Agriculture . . . 310
4. Classes, the State Apparatus and the Countrys
Cultural 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 Party
and the Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . 346
4. What Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
IV. General Summary . . . . . . . . . . . 361
CONTENTS X
Reply to the Discussion on the Political Report of
the Central Committee, December 7 . . . . . . 364
I. Concerning Rakovskys Speech . . . . . . 364
II. Concerning Kamenevs Speech . . . . . . 367
III. The Summing Up . . . . . . . . . . 379
STATEMENT TO FOREIGN PRESS CORRESPONDENTS
CONCERNING THE COUNTERFEIT ARTICLES BY
STALIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Biographical Chronicle (August-December 1927) . . . . . 404
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE. From
Statements Made in Various Parts of Siberia in January
1928. (Brief Record) . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
FIRST RESULTS OF THE PROCUREMENT CAMPAIGN
AND THE FURTHER TASKS OF THE PARTY. To
All 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.
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February 25, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
THE WORK OF THE APRIL JOINT PLENUM OF THE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND CENTRAL CONTROL
COMMISSION. Report Delivered at a Meeting of the
Active 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
CONTENTS VIII
GREETINGS TO THE WORKERS OF KOSTROMA 69
SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OF
THE ALL-UNION LENINIST YOUNG COMMUNIST
LEAGUE, May 16, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . 70
I. Strengthen the Readiness for Action of the
Working 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 the
Institute of Red Professors, the Communist Academy
and the Sverdlov University, May 28, 1928 . . . . . 85
LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PARTY AFFAIRS
STUDY CIRCLE AT THE COMMUNIST ACADEMY 102
LENIN AND THE QUESTION OF THE ALLIANCE
WITH THE MIDDLE PEASANT. Reply to Comrade S. 105
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Reply to Frumkin.
(With Reference to Frumkins 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 . 145
The Programme of the Comintern. Speech Deliv-
ered on July 5, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Industrialisation and the Grain Problem. Speech
Delivered on July 9, 1928 . . . . . . . . . 165
On the Bond between the Workers and Peasants
and On State Farms. From a Speech Delivered
on 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 the
Leningrad Organisation of the C.P.S.U.(B.), July 13,
1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
I. The Comintern . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
1. Major Problems of the Sixth Congress of the
Comintern . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
2. The Programme of the Comintern . . . . . 211
II. Questions of Socialist Construction in the
U.S.S.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
1. Grain Procurement Policy. . . . . . . . . 213
2. Training of Cadres for the Work of Industrial
construction . . . . . . . . . . . . 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.). Speech
Delivered at the Plenum of the Moscow Committee and
Moscow 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 PEASANT
WOMEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE COUNTRY AND THE
RIGHT DEVIATION IN THE C.P.S.U.(B.). Speech
Delivered at the Plenum of the C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.),
November 19, 1928 . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
CONTENTS X
I. The Rate of Development of Industry . . . 256
II. The Grain Problem . . . . . . . . . 267
III. Combating Deviations and Conciliation
towards 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 PROFINTERN
FACTORY, BEZHITSA . . . . . . . . . . . 305
ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FRUNZE
MILITARY ACADEMY OF THE WORKERS AND
PEASANTS RED ARMY . . . . . . . . . . 306
THE RIGHT DANGER IN THE GERMAN COMMUNIST
PARTY. Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Presidium
of 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
BUKHARINS GROUP AND THE RIGHT DEVIA-
TION IN OUR PARTY. From Speeches Delivered at
a Joint Meeting of the Political Bureau of the C.C. and
the Presidium of the C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) at the End of
January and the Beginning of February 1929. (Brief
Record) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
REPLY TO BILL-BELOTSERKOVSKY . . . . . . . 341
TO THE WORKING MEN AND WOMEN OF THE
KRASNY TREUGOLNIK FACTORY . . . . . . 345
CONTENTS XI
TELEGRAM TO THE RED ARMY MEN, COMMANDERS
AND POLITICAL OFFICERS OF THE FIRST RED
COSSACK REGIMENT, PROSKUROV . . . . . . 346
GREETINGS TO SELSKOKHOZYAISTVENNAYA
GAZETA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
THE NATIONAL QUESTION AND LENINISM. Reply to
Comrades 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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Delivered at the Plenum of the Central Committee and
Central Control Commission of the C.P.S.U.(B.) in
April 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 . . . . . . . . . 52
f) The Rate of Development of Industry and the New Forms
of the Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
g) 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 Bukharins Group . . . . . 102
b) Loyalty and Collective Leadership . . . . . . 104
c) The Fight Against the Right Deviation . . . . . 109
VI. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
CONTENTS VIII
EMULATION AND LABOUR ENTHUSIASM OF THE
MASSES. Foreword to E. Mikulinas 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 THE
UKRAINE 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 the
Twelfth 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 NEWSPAPER
TREVOGA, ORGAN OF THE SPECIAL FAR EASTERN
ARMY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
A NECESSARY CORRECTION . . . . . . . . . 143
TO ALL ORGANISATIONS AND COMRADES WHO SENT
GREETINGS ON THE OCCASION OF COMRADE
STALINS FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY . . . . . . . 146
CONCERNING QUESTIONS OF AGRARIAN POLICY
IN THE U.S.S.R. Speech Delivered at a Conference of
Marxist 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-Peasant
Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
IV. Town and Country . . . . . . . . . . . 162
V. The Nature of Collective Farms . . . . . . 167
VI. The Class Changes and the Turn in the Partys
Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
VII. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
LETTER TO A. M. GORKY . . . . . . . . . . 179
CONCERNING THE POLICY OF ELIMINATING THE
KULAKS AS A CLASS . . . . . . . . . . 184
REPLY TO THE SVERDLOV COMRADES . . . . . 190
I. The Sverdlov Students Questions . . . . . . 190
II. Comrade Stalins 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 INDUSTRIAL
ACADEMY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
REPLY TO COMRADE M. RAFAIL. (Regional Trade-Union
Council, Leningrad.) Copy to Comrade Kirov, Secretary
Regional Committee of the C.P.S.U.(B.) . . . . . 237
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY WORKS, ROSTOV . . 240
TRACTOR WORKS, STALINGRAD . . . . . . . . 241
POLITICAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO
THE SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.),
June 27, 1930 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
CONTENTS X
I. The Growing Crisis of World Capitalism and the
External 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 Capitalist
States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
II. The Increasing Advance of Socialist Construction and
the Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R. . . . . . . 269
1. The Growth of the National Economy as a Whole . . . 270
2. Successes in Industrialisation . . . . . . . . . 272
3. The Key Position of Socialist Industry and Its Rate of
Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
4. Agriculture and the Grain Problem . . . . . . . 282
5. The Turn of the Peasantry Towards Socialism and the Rate
of Development of State Farms and Collective Farms . . 288
6. The Improvement in the Material and Cultural Conditions of
the Workers and Peasants . . . . . . . . . . 299
7. Difficulties of Growth the Class Struggle and the Offensive
of Socialism Along the Whole Front . . . . . . . 309
8. The Capitalist or the Socialist System of Economy . . . 326
9. The Next Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
a) General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
b) Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
c) Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
d) Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
III. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348
1. Questions of the Guidance of Socialist Construction . . 352
2. 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 POLITICAL
REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE TO
THE 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 News
Agency in the United States . . . . . . . . . . 30
THE TASKS OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES. Speech Deliv-
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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 TRACTOR
STATIONS. TO ALL MACHINE AND TRACTOR
STATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
CONTENTS VIII
TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GRAIN TRUST BOARD.
TO ALL STATE GRAIN FARMS . . . . . . . 52
NEW CONDITIONSNEW 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 AND
TECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF AMO . . . . . . 83
TO THE WORKERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND
TECHNICAL PERSONNEL OF THE KHARKOV
TRACTOR WORKS PROJECT . . . . . . . . 84
TO THE NEWSPAPER TEKHNIKA . . . . . . . . 85
SOME QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE HISTORY OF
BOLSHEVISM. Letter to the Editorial Board of the
Magazine 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 MOLOTOV
AUTOMOBILE WORKS, NIZHNI-NOVGOROD . . . 126
CONTENTS IX
TO THE CHIEF OF THE HARVESTER COMBINE
WORKS PROJECT AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE
HARVESTER 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 Board
of 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 PRESS
NEWS AGENCY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
THE IMPORTANCE AND TASKS OF THE COMPLAINTS
BUREAUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONS OF RALPH V. BARNES
May 3, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
KUZNETSK IRON AND STEEL WORKS PROJECT
KUZNETSK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
GREETINGS TO THE SEVENTH ALL-UNION CON-
FERENCE OF THE ALL-UNION LENINIST YOUNG
COMMUNIST 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
CONTENTS X
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-Year
Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
II. The Fundamental Task of the Five-Year Plan
and the Way to Its Fulfilment . . . . . . 174
III. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Years
in the Sphere of Industry . . . . . . . . 180
IV. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Years
in the Sphere of Agriculture . . . . . . . 191
V. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Years
as Regards Improving the Material Conditions of
the Workers and Peasants . . . . . . . . 199
VI. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Years
as Regards Trade Turnover between Town and
Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
VII. The Results of the Five-Year Plan in Four Years
in the Sphere of the Struggle against the Remnants
of the Hostile Classes . . . . . . . . . 211
VIII. General Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . 217
Work in the Countryside. Speech Delivered on January
11, 1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
TO RABOTNITSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
LETTER TO COMRADE I. N. BAZHANOV . . . . . 241
SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIRST ALL-UNION
CONGRESS OF COLLECTIVE-FARM SHOCK BRI-
GADERS, February 19, 1933 . . . . . . . . . 242
I. The Collective-Farm Path Is the Only Right Path 242
II. Our Immediate TaskTo Make All the Collective
Farmers Prosperous . . . . . . . . . . . 252
III. Miscellaneous Remarks . . . . . . . . . . 257
CONTENTS XI
GREETINGS TO THE RED ARMY ON ITS FIFTEENTH
ANNIVERSARY. 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. (Brief
Record) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
GREETINGS ON THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
OF THE ALL-UNION LENINIST YOUNG COMMU-
NIST LEAGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
TALK WITH Mr. DURANTY, CORRESPONDENT OF
THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 25, 1933 . . . 282
REPORT TO THE SEVENTEENTH PARTY CONGRESS
ON THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
OF THE C.P.S.U.(B.), January 26, 1934 . . . . . 288
I. The Continuing Crisis of World Capitalism and the
External Situation of the Soviet Union . . . . 288
1. The Course of the Economic Crisis in the Capitalist
Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
2. The Growing Tension in the Political Situation in
the 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 Economy
and the Internal Situation in the U.S.S.R. . . . 312
1. The Progress of Industry . . . . . . . . . 316
2. The Progress of Agriculture . . . . . . . . 324
3. The Rise in the Material and Cultural Standard of
the Working People . . . . . . . . . . 340
4. The Progress of Trade Turnover, and Transport . . 346
III. The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
1. Questions of Ideological and Political Leadership . . 355
2. Questions of Organisational Leadership. . . . . 372
CONTENTS XII
TO COMRADE SHAPOSHNIKOV, CHIEF AND COM-
ISSAR OF THE FRUNZE MILITARY ACADEMY
OF THE WORKERS AND PEASANTS RED ARMY.
TO COMRADE SHCHADENKO, ASSISTANT FOR
POLITICAL 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 Interview
with 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 MANUAL
OF THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.S.R. August 8,
1934 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
REMARKS ON THE SUMMARY OF THE MANUAL
OF MODERN HISTORY August 9, 1934 . . . . . . 61
THE DEATH OF KIROV December 1, 1934 . . . . 63
LETTER TO COMRADE CHOUMIATSKY . . . . . 67
ADDRESS GIVEN AT THE RECEPTION OF
THE 1st MAY PARADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES FROM THE
RED ARMY ACADEMIES Delivered in the
Kremlin May 6, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
ADDRESS TO THE SOLEMN MEETING ON THE
OPENING OF THE L. M. KAGANOVICH METRO
May 14, 1935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SPEECH DELIVERED AT A RECEPTION GIVEN
BY LEADERS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
8
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 THE
SECOND ALL-UNION CONGRESS OF KOL-
KHOZINES February 15, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . 121
SPEECH AT A CONFERENCE OF THE FORE-
MOST COLLECTIVE FARMERS OF TAJIKSTAN
AND TURKMENISTAN December 4, 1935 . . . . . 123
CONFERENCE OF THE AVANT-GARDIST MEN
AND WOMEN OF TAJIKSTAN AND OF TURK-
MENISTAN WITH THE DIRECTORS OF THE
PARTY AND THE STATE December 4, 1935 . . . 127
INTERVIEW BETWEEN J. STALIN AND ROY
HOWARD March 1, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
TELEGRAM FROM THE CENTRAL COMMIT-
TEE OF THE C.P.S.U.(B) TO THE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
OF SPAIN October, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
ON THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF THE
U.S.S.R. Report delivered at the Extraordinary
Eighth Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R.
November 25, 1936 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
9
CONSTITUTION (FUNDAMENTAL LAW) OF
THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUB-
LICS With amendments adopted by the First,
Second, Third, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth
Sessions of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R.
Kremlin, Moscow. December 5, 1936 . . . . . . . 199
REPORT AND SPEECH IN REPLY TO DEBATE
AT THE PLENUM OF THE CENTRAL COM-
MITTEE OF THE C.P.S.U.(B) March 3- 5, 1937
DEFECTS IN PARTY WORK AND MEASURES
FOR LIQUIDATING TROTSKYITE AND OTHER
DOUBLE-DEALERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
SPEECH IN REPLY TO DEBATE . . . . . . . . . 275
LETTER TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MANUAL
OF THE "HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST
PARTY" May, 1937 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
ADDRESS TO THE RECEPTION OF DIRECTORS
AND STAKHANOVITES OF THE METAL IN-
DUSTRY AND THE COAL MINING INDUSTRY
October 29, 1937 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
SPEECH DELIVERED BY COMRADE J. STALIN
AT A MEETING OF VOTERS OF THE STALIN
ELECTORAL AREA, MOSCOW December 11,
1937. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
ON THE FINAL VICTORY OF SOCIALISM IN
THE U.S.S.R. January 18 - February 12, 1938 . . 315
LETTER ON PUBLICATIONS FOR CHILDREN
DIRECTED TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
OF THE ALL-UNION COMMUNIST YOUTH
February 16, 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
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SPEECH DELIVERED AT A RECEPTION IN
THE KREMLIN TO HIGHER EDUCATIONAL
WORKERS May 17, 1938 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE EXCLUSION
OF KOLKHOZINES FROM THE KOLKHOZES
Decree of the Council 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 . . . . . . . . . 333
ON THE INCORRECT DISTRIBUTION OF RE-
VENUES IN THE KOLKHOZES Decree of the
Council 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 OBLIGATIONS
CONCERNING INDEPENDENT OPERATORS
Decree of the Council 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 . . . . . . . . . 349
OATH OF ALLEGIANCE OF THE WORKERS'
AND PEASANTS' RED ARMY February 23,
1939 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE TO THE EIGHTEENTH CON-
GRESS OF THE C.P.S.U.(B) March 10, 1939 . . . 355
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
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