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Preface

1921-23

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)

OUR DISAGREEMENTS

I. Two Methods of Approach to the Mass of the Workers

II. Conscious Democracy and Forced “Democracy”


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

I. The Capitalist System and National Oppression

II. The Soviet System and National Freedom

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


THE TENTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), March 8-16, 1921

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

2. Reply to the Discussion, March 10


A LETTER TO V. I. LENIN

CONCERNING THE PRESENTATION OF THE NATIONAL QUESTION

GREETINGS TO THE FIRST CONGRESS OF HIGHLAND WOMEN

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

I. Definition of Terms and Subject of Investigation

II. Historic Turns in the Development of Russia

III. Questions


THE IMMEDIATE TASKS OF COMMUNISM IN GEORGIA AND TRANSCAUCASIA. Report to a General Meeting of the Tiflis Organisation of the Communist Party of Georgia, July 6, 1921

THE PARTY BEFORE AND AFTER TAKING POWER

THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE NATIONAL POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

THE PROSPECTS

1922

TO PRAVDA

THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF PRAVDA (Reminiscences)

1. The Lena Events

2. The Foundation of Pravda

3. The Organisational Significance of Pravda


COMRADE LENIN ON VACATION. NOTES

GREETINGS TO PETROGRAD, TO THE SOVIET OF DEPUTIES

THE QUESTION OF THE UNION OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL REPUBLICS. Interview With a Pravda Correspondent

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

THE FORMATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS. Report Delivered at the First Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R., December 30, 1922

1923

CONCERNING THE QUESTION OF THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS

I. Preliminary Concepts
    1. Two Aspects of the Working-Class Movement
    2. The Theory and Programme of Marxism
    3. Strategy
    4. Tactics
    5. Forms of Struggle
    6. Forms of Organisation
    7. The Slogan. The Directive

II. The Strategic Plan
    1. Historic Turns. Strategic Plans
    2. The First Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution in Russia
    3. The Second Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Russia
    4. The Third Historic Turn and the Course Towards the Proletarian Revolution in Europe


NATIONAL FACTORS IN PARTY AND STATE AFFAIRS. Theses for the Twelfth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Approved by the Central Committee of the Party

I

II


THE TWELFTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.(B.), April 17-25, 1923

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

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

3. Report on National Factors in Party and State Affairs, April 23

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

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

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


THE PRESS AS A COLLECTIVE ORGANISER

CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED

FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P.(B.) WITH RESPONSIBLE WORKERS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICS AND REGIONS, June 9-12, 1923

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

    i. The General Line on Party Work on the National Question

    ii. Questions Connected With the Institution or a Second Chamber or the Central Executive Committee or the Union and With the Organisation of the People’s Commissariats or the Union or Republics

    iii. Measures for Drawing Working People or the Local Population Into Party and Soviet Affairs

    iv. Measures to Raise the Cultural Level or the Local Population

    v. Economic Construction in the National Republics and Regions From the Standpoint of the Specific National Features or Their Manner or Life.

    vi. Practical Measures for the Organisation of National Military Units

    vii. The Organisation or Party Educational Work

    viii. Selection or Party and Soviet officials With a View to Implementing the Resolution on the National Question Adopted by the Twelfth Congress

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

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

4. Reply to the Discussion, June 12

5. Reply to Speeches, June 12


THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE QUESTION OF THE MIDDLE STRATA

THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST CONGRESS OF WORKING WOMEN AND PEASANT WOMEN

SPEECH AT A CELEBRATION MEETING AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY, November 17, 1923 (Brief Newspaper Report)

THE PARTY’S 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

Discussion—a Sign of the Party’s Strength

Causes of the Discussion

Defects in Internal Party Life

The Causes of the Defects

How Should the Defects in Internal Party Life Be Removed?


THE DISCUSSION, RAFAIL, THE ARTICLES BY PREOBRAZHENSKY AND SAPRONOV, AND TROTSKY’S LETTER

1. The Discussion

2. Rafail

3. Preobrazhensky’s Article

4. Sapronov’s Article

5. Trotsky’s Letter


A NECESSARY COMMENT (Concerning Rafail)

GREETINGS TO THE NEWSPAPER COMMUNIST

Appendices

Appendix 1. Declaration on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Appendix 2. Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics


Biographical Chronicle (1921-1923)