In the Footsteps of Russkaya Volya Pravda No. 31, April 26 (13), 1917. Published according to the text in Pravda.
The War and the Provisional Government Pravda No. 31, April 26 (13), 1917. Published according to the text in Pravda.
The Dual Power Pravda No. 28, April 22 (9), 1917. Signed: N. Lenin. Published according to the text in Pravda.
Notes for an Article or Speech in Defence of the April Theses A brief note by Lenin on his April Theses.(1) Economic debacle is imminent. Therefore removal of the bourgeoisie is a mistake.(This is the conclusion of the bourgeoisie. The more imminent the debacle, the more essential is it that the bourgeoisie be removed.)(2) Proletariat is unorganised, weak, lacking class-consciousness.
Two Worlds Capitalist newspapers like Rech and Novoye Vremya have published articles attacking our passage through Germany and insinuating that the new arrivals were aiding the German imperialists. Izvestia of the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies reprints in full the report published in yesterday’s Pravda which was presented to the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies on the very first day after our arrival. In addition to the report, Izvestia publishes the resolution of the Executive Committee, which it gives in the following words:
Tricks of the Republican Chauvinists First published in Russian in 1924 in Lenin Miscellany II. Published in Volksrecht No. 81, April 18 (5), 1917. Signed: N. Lenin.
How We Arrived This article was a report to the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet made by Lenin the day after his arrival in Petrograd on April 17 (4), 1917, on behalf of the emigrants who returned from Switzerland together with him.
The April Theses (The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution) This article contains Lenin’s famous April Theses, read by him at two meetings of the All-Russia Conference of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, on April 4, 1917. Published April 7, 1917 in Pravda No. 26. Signed: N. Lenin.
Decision of the Collegium Abroad, Central Committee, Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party First published in 1923.
Speech Delivered at a Meeting of Soldiers of the Izmailovsky Regiment April 25 (12), 1917 Published: Pravda No. 30, April 25 (12), 1917. Signed: N. Lenin. Published according to the text in Pravda.
War or Peace? The question of chief interest, now, to the governments and the peoples of the world is, What will be the influence of the Russian Revolution on the War? Will it bring peace nearer? Or will the revolutionary enthusiasm of the people swing towards a more vigorous prosecution of the war?
To Our Comrades in War-Prisoner Camps This letter was written in mid-March as Lenin was preparing to travel to Russia. In it he appealed to Russian war prisoners in Germany and Austria to return to Russia in order to support the revolution agasint the ruling classes.
The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party in the Russian Revolution Lenin’s two-and-a-half-hour lecture consisted of two parts. In the first, Lenin surveyed the historical conditions which could, and did, produce such a “miracle” as the collapse of the tsarist monarchy in a matter of eight days. The most important of these was the “great rebellion” of 1905–07, so vilely denounced by the Guchkovs and Milyukovs, the present masters of the situation, who are moved to admiration by the “glorious revolution” of 1917. But had the really profound Revolution of 1905 not “ploughed up the ground”, had it not exposed to view all the parties and classes in action, had it not exposed the tsarist clique in all its barbarism and savagery, the swift victory of 1917 would not have been possible.
