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Lenin Collected Works:
Volume 17
Preface by Progress Publishers
Volume Seventeen of Lenin's works covers the period December 1910 to
April 1912.
The principal contents of the volume are writings reflecting the
struggle for the Party, against the liquidators and their
accomplices—renegades from the revolution.
In the articles “The State of Affairs in the Party",
“Those Who Would Liquidate Us (Re: Mr. Potresov and
V. Bazaroy)", “The Social Structure of State Power, the
Prospects and Liquidationism", “Wreckers of the Party in
the Role of 'Wreckers of Legends'", “A Conversation
Between a Legalist and an Opponent of Liquidationism",
“A Liberal Labour Party Manifesto", “From the Camp
of the Stolypin `Labour' Party”, Lenin uncovers the
ideological roots and essence of liquidationism and exposes the
liquidators' systematic wrecking of the work of the leading Party
bodies.
The article “The New Faction of Conciliators, or the
Virtuous” shows the unprincipled shifts of the conciliators to
the side of the liquidators.
In the articles “The Cadets and the Octobrists",
“First Exposure of Cadet Negotiations with the Cabinet”
“Political Parties in the Five Years of the Third Duma",
“The Bloc of the Cadets with the Progressists and Its
Significance”, Lenin illustrates the class nature of the party
of counter revolutionary liberalism—the Cadet Party.
The elections to the Fourth State Duma are dealt with in “The
Election Campaign and the Election Platform", “The Campaign
for the Elections to the Fourth Duma", "Fundamental Problems of
the Election Campaign".
A considerable part of the volume is taken up by documents which
throw light on the significance of the Prague
Party Conference which expelled Menshevik liquidators from the
Party, a fact that played an outstanding role in preserving and
strengthening the revolutionary party of the proletariat. These
documents include the article on “The Climax of the Party
Crisis", “Draft Resolution on Liquidationism and the
Group of Liquidators", the resolutions of the Prague
Conference, “Report to the International Socialist Bureau
on the All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.", the pamphlet
“The Anonymous Writer in Vorwärts and the State
of Affairs in the R.S.D.L.P.", “A Letter to Huysmans,
Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau".
Lenin's famous article “Certain Features of the Historical
Development of Marxism” is included in this volume.
In this edition two letters to the Russian Collegium of the C.C. of
the R.S.D.L.P. (1910-11) are included in the Collect ed
Works for the first time. In these letters Lenin shows how the
liquidators, otzovists, Vperyod group, and Trotskyites
wrecked the work of the Party, and puts forward the task of uniting
Party forces in the struggle for the restoration of the Party. The
following are also included in Lenin's Collected Works for
the first time: the note “Judas Trotsky's Blush of
Shame"; materials relating to the June Meeting of the members
of the
C.C. in 1911: “Letter to the Meeting of the
C.C. Members of the R.S.D.L.P. Abroad”, “Summary (Plan)
for Report by Three Bolshevik Members of the C.C. to a Private
Meeting of Nine Members of the Central Committee",
“Draft Resolution Defining Terms of Reference"; the
articles “The Social-Democratic Group in the Second
Duma", “Agency of the Liberal Bourgeoisie ";
documents
of the meeting of the Bolshevik groups abroad: “Draft
Resolution on the Report 'State of Affairs in the Party'",
“Resolution on the Russian Organising Commission for the
Convening of a Conference"; the documents of the Prague
Conference: draft resolutions on the constitution of the Conference,
on the tasks of the Party in the present situation, on the tasks of
Social-Democrats in the struggle against the famine, “The
Election Platform of the R.S.D.L.P.", letter “To the
Editorial Board of Zvezda", and the article
“Put Your Cards on the Table".
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