I Lenin Collected Works. Translated and edited by Bernard Isaacs. Moscow: Progress, Lenin Collected Works. The Dual Power , in V. The Petrograd City Conference of the R. Bolsheviks April 14—29 , April 27—May 12, , in V. Translated and edited by Stepan Apresyan and Jim Riordan. The State and Revolution , in V. On Compromises , in V.
Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? Translated by Yuri Sdobnikov and George Hanna. Edited by George Hanna. Decree on Peace, October 26 November 8 , in V.
Theses on the Constituent Assembly , in V. Luxemburg, Rosa. The Russian Revolution and Leninism or Marxism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Marples, David R. London: Longman, McCauley, Martin. Pipes, Richard. New York: Knopf, Radkey, Oliver. In view of the undoubted honesty of those broad sections of the mass believers in revolutionary defencism who accept the war only as a necessity, and not as a means of conquest, in view of the fact that they are being deceived by the bourgeoisie, it is necessary with particular thoroughness, persistence and patience to explain their error to them, to explain the inseparable connection existing between capital and the imperialist war, and to prove that without overthrowing capital it is impossible to end the war by a truly democratic peace, a peace not imposed by violence.
This transition is characterised, on the one hand, by a maximum of legally recognised rights Russia is now the freest of all the belligerent countries in the world ; on the other, by the absence of violence towards the masses, and, finally, by their unreasoning trust in the government of capitalists, those worst enemies of peace and socialism.
This peculiar situation demands of us an ability to adapt ourselves to the special conditions of Party work among unprecedentedly large masses of proletarians who have just awakened to political life. Abolition of the police, the army and the bureaucracy. The salaries of all officials, all of whom are elective and displaceable at any time, not to exceed the average wage of a competent worker. The organisation of separate Soviets of Deputies of Poor Peasants. What does this mean?
In what way does this differ from riot-inciting agitation, from Russkaya Volya? I attacked the Provisional Government for not having appointed an early date or any date at all, for the convocation of the Constituent Assembly , and for confining itself to promises. And the view is attributed to me that I am opposed to the speedy convocation of the Constituent Assembly!
I could not, because of the lack of time, present a thorough, systematic report. The basic question is our attitude towards the war. The basic things confronting you as you read about Russia or observe conditions here are the triumph of defencism, the triumph of the traitors to Socialism, the deception of the masses by the bourgeoisie The new government, like the preceding one, is imperialistic, despite the promise of a republic - it is imperialistic through and through.
In view of the undoubted honesty of the mass of rank and file representatives of revolutionary defencism who accept the war only as a necessity and not as a means of conquest, in view of their being deceived by the bourgeoisie, it is necessary most thoroughly, persistently, patiently to explain to them their error, to explain the inseparable connection between capital and the imperialist war, to prove that without the overthrow of capital it is impossible to conclude the war with a really democratic, non-oppressive peace.
The peculiarity of the present situation in Russia is that it represents a transition from the first stage of the revolution - which, because of the inadequate organisation and insufficient class-consciousness of the proletariat, led to the assumption of power by the bourgeoisie - to its second stage which is to place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poorest strata of the peasantry This peculiar situation demands of us an ability to adapt ourselves to the specific conditions of party work amidst vast masses of the proletariat just wakened to political life.
No support to the Provisional Government; exposure of the utter falsity of all its promises, particularly those relating to the renunciation of annexations.
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