Section I
  TRADITIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC AND PROLETARIAN PRESS
5 From the History of the Workers’ Press in Russia
11 Our Tasks
13 In Memory of Herzen
18 On Bolshevism
20 On The Tenth Anniversary of Pravda
23 Karl MarxA BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH WITH AN EXPOSITION OF MARXISM • (Extract)
26 From the Economic Life of Russia • (Extract)
27 Letter to the Moscow Committee • (Extract)
28 To I. V. BabushkinFor Novitskaya from Lenin Dear friend,
29 To the Kharkov Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.
30 To Yelena Stasova
31 Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. • July 17 (30)-August 10 (23), 1903 • DRAFT RESOLUTION ON PARTY LITERATURE
31 From the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party
33 Ivan Vasilyevich BabushkinAN OBITUARY
  The Results of Six Months’ Work
36 [introduction.]
36 I
39 II
41 III
44 IV
46 Before and Now
47 The Journal Svoboda
  Section II
  FUNCTIONS AND TASKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRESS
48 Our Immediate Task
52 An Urgent Question
56 Draft of a Declaration of the Editorial Board of Iskra and Zar/a • (Extracts)
63 Declaration of the Editorial Board of IskraIN THE NAME OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
67 Where To Begin
  What Is To Be done? • Burning Questions of Our Movement • (Extracts)
72 II THE SPONTANEITY OF THE MASSES AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATSA. The Beginning of the Spontaneous Upsurge
74 III TRADE-UNIONIST POLITICS AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC POLITICS
81 IV THE PRIMITIVENESS OF THE ECONOMISTSAND THE ORGANISATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES
89 V THE “PLAN” FOR AN ALL-RUSSIAN POLITICAL NEWSPAPER
   
 
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 The End.
C. What Type of Organisation do we Require?
 Reply to ,,A Reader"
 The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra’s Plan  FOR PARTY MEMBERS ONLY
 [introduction.]
 I
 II
 III
 IV
 Revolutionary Days  WHAT IS HAPPENING IN RUSSIA?
 To the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.  FROM LENIN TO THE MEMBERS OF THE C.C., PRIVATE  (Extract)
 Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic  Revolution  (Extracts)
 II COMRADE MARTYNOV AGAIN GIVES “PROFUNDITY” TO THE  QUESTION
 III THE VULGAR BOURGEOIS AND THE MARXIST VIEWS  ON DICTATORSHIP
 To the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.  (Extracts)
 Keeping International Social-Democracy Informed of Our  Party Affairs  (Extract)
 Preface to the Collection  Twelve Years  (Extract)
 Announcement on the Publication of Rabochaya Gazeta
 Two Letters  (Extract)
 To Maxim Gorky
 To the Editor of Nevskaya Zvezda
 The Significance of the St. Petersburg Elections  (Extract)
 The Workers and Pravda  (Extract)
 For the Attention of Luch and Pravda Readers
 The National Programme of the R.S.D.L.P.  (Extract)
 To A. G. Shlyapnikov  (Extract)
 Initial Variant of R.S.D.L.P. C.C. Proposals to the Second  Socialist Conference  PROPOSALS BY THE C.C. OF THE R.S.D.L.P. TO THE SECOND  SOCIALIST CONFERENCE CALLED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST  COMMISSION (BERNE)  (Extract)
 Speech Delivered at a Non-Party Conference of Workers  and Red Army Men of Presnya District, Moscow  January 24, 1920  NEWSPAPER REPORT  (Extract)
 Section III
 BASIC PRINCIPLES  OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRESS
 Party Organisation and Party Literature
 An Unissued Statement
 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back  (THE CRISIS IN OUR PARTY)  (Extracts)  G. The Party Rules. Comrade Martov’s Draft
 Letter to Glebov (V. A. Noskov)  (Extract)
 Letter to A Group of Comrades  WITH REFERENCE TO THE FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION  OF THE ORGAN OF THE PARTY MAJORITY
 A Third Step Back  (Extract)
 Report on the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.  A LETTER TO THE ST. PETERSBURG WORKERS  (Extract)
 Martov’s and Cherevanin’s Pronouncements in the  Bourgeois Press  Telling how Certain Social-Democrats Resort to Bourgeois, Cadet  Newspapers, like Tovarishch, and, Through Tovarishch, to the Novy  Put, in Order to Spread False Reports About Revolutionary’  Social-Democracy. Refutation. Estimation. Conclusions.  (Extract)  SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS AND BOURGEOIS NEWSPAPERS
 Blocs with the Cadets  (Extract)
 To P. Yushkevich
 Conference of the St. Petersburg Organisation of the  R.S.D.L.P.  (Extract)  3. REPORT ON THE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS  IN THE BOURGEOIS PRESS
 The Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.  January 5-17(18-30), 1912  RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONFERENCE  (Extracts)  Elections to the Fourth Duma
 Resolutions of the Summer, 1913, Joint Conference of the  Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. and Party Officials  (Extract)  THE PARTY PRESS
 Letter to the Editor
 Concerning A. Bogdanov  (Extracts)
 To V. B. Stonkevich
 To A. G. Shlyapnikov
 Meeting of the Petrograd Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.  (Bolsheviks) ’  May 30 (June 12), 1917
 1. SPEECH CONCERNING AN ORGAN OF THE PRESS FOR THE  PETROGRAD COMMITTEE
 2. DRAFT RESOLUTIONS INTRODUCED AT THE MEETING OF THE  PETROGRAD COMMITTEE
 Letter to the District Committees of the Petrograd  Organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks)
 Section IV
 FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
 Lecture on the 1905 Revolution  (Extract)
 Bolshevism and “Demoralisation” of the Army
 On Slogans  (Extracts)
 Our Thanks to Prince G. Y. Lvov  (Extract)
 How to Guarantee the Success of the Constituent  Assembly  ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
 The Tasks of the Revolution  (Extract)  STRUGGLE AGAINST THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION  OF THE LANDOWNERS AND CAPITALISTS
 Meeting of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee  November 4 (17), 1917  1. SPEECH ON THE PRESS
 Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)  March 6-8, 1918  ROUGH OUTLINE OF THE DRAFT PROGRAMME  (Extract)
 Theses on the Present Political Situation  (Extract)
 Extraordinary Fourth All-Russia Congress of Soviets  March U-16, 1918  REPORT ON RATIFICATION OF THE PEACE TREATY  March 14  (Extract)
 The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky  (Extract)
 The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky  (Extract)  [Extract 2 on page 193, first extract on page 192 with same title.]
 First Congress of the Communist International  March 2-6, 1919  THESES AND REPORT ON BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACY  AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT  March 4  (Extract)
 Eighth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)  March 18-23, 1919  REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE  March 18  (Extract)
 Draft Third Clause of the General Political Section of  the Programme  (FOR THE PROGRAMME COMMISSION OF THE EIGHTH  PARTY CONGRESS)
 Speech at the First All-Russia Congress of Workers in  Education and Socialist Culture  July 31, 1919  (Extract)
 Letter to G. Myasnikov
 New Times and Old Mistakes in a New Guise  (Extract)
 Seventh Moscow Gubernia Conference of the Russian  Communist Party  October 29-31, 1921  REPORT ON THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY  October 29  (Extract)
 Supplement  Decree on the Press
 Draft (or Theses) of the R.C.P.’s Reply to the Letter of the  Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany  (Extract)
 On the Revolutionary Press Tribunal  Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars
 On the Formation of a Commission to Probe the  Dependence of Bourgeois Newspapers on Banks  DRAFT RESOLUTION  November 4 (17), 1917
 Decree on the Introduction of State Monopoly of  Advertising
 The Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars
 The Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars on the  Sale of Soviet Press Publications in the Post and  Telegraph Offices
 To Deputy Commissar for the Press Comrade Yankovsky
 Decision of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee  of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies  on the Russian Telegraph Agency
 Section V
 THE BOURGEOIS PRESS
 The Russian Tsar Seeks the Protection of the Turkish  Sultan Against his People  (Extract)
 European Capital and the Autocracy  (Extract)
 The Advice of the Conservative Bourgeoisie
 The First Victory of the Revolution  (Extract)
 The Victory of the Cadets and the Tasks of the Workers’  Party  (Extract)
 The Happening to the King of Portugal
 A Replete Bourgeoisie and a Craving Bourgeoisie
 An Estimate of Marx by International Liberalism
 The Bourgeois Press Fable about the Expulsion of Gorky
 The International Policy of the Bourgeoisie
 British Socialist Party Conference  (Extract)
 Capitalism and the Press
 Bourgeois Philanthropists and Revolutionary  SocialDemocracy  (Extract)
 The Revolution in Russia and the Tasks of the Workers  of Ail Countries  (Extract)
 A Partnership of Lies  (Extract)
 To the Soldiers and Sailors
 Against the Riot-Mongers  TO THE WORKERS, SOLDIERS, AND THE WHOLE POPULATION  OF PETROGRAD
 How a Simple Question Can Be Confused
 Foul Slander by Ultra-Reactionary Newspapers and  Alexinsky
 Already the “New” Government Is Lagging Behind Even  the Peasant Mass, Leave Alone the RevolutionaryWorkers
 Dreyfusiad
 Extraordinary Sixth All-Russia Congress of Soviets of  Workers’, Peasants’, Cossacks’ and Red Army Deputies  November 6—9, 1918  SPEECH ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION  November 8  (Extract)
 Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst  TO COMRADE SYLVIA PANKHURST, LONDON  (Extract)
 Speech at a Meeting of the Moscow Soviet in Celebration  of the First Anniversary of the Third International  March 6, 1920  (Extract)
 To the State Publishing House and to Y. A.  Preobrazhensky and N. I. Bukharin
 Speech Delivered at the All-Russia Congress of Transport  Workers  March 27, 1921  (Extract)
 Section VI
 THE OPPORTUNIST PRESS
 Preface to the Russian Translation of "Letters by Johannes  Becker, Joseph Dietzgen, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx,  and Others to Friedrich Sorge and Others"  (Extracts)
 Two Worlds  (Extract)
 To Maxim Gorky  (Extract)
 From the Camp of the Stolypin “Labour” Party  DEDICATED TO OUR “CONCILIATORS” AND ADVOCATES OF  "AGREEMENT"
 To the Bureau of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. in Russia
 The Liquidators and "Unity"
 Dead Liquidationism and the Living "Rech"
 Coteries Abroad and Russian Liquidators
 To David Wijnkoop  (Extract)
 What Should Not Be Copied from the German Labour  Movement  (Extract)
 A Fool’s Haste is No Speed
 How the Police and the Reactionaries Protect the Unity  of German Social-Democracy
 The Tasks of the Opposition in France  LETTER TO COMRADE SAFAROV
 How the Bourgeoisie Utilises Renegades  (Extract)
 In the Footsteps of Russkaya Volya  (Extract)
 “Left-wing” Communism—an Infantile Disorder  (Extracts)
 “LEFT-WING” COMMUNISM IN GERMANY. THE LEADERS,  THE PARTY, THE CLASS, THE MASSES
 SHOULD WE PARTICIPATE IN BOURGEOIS PARLIAMENTS?
 Section VII
 THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS’  AND COMMUNIST PRESS
 The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart  (Extract)
 The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart  (Extracts)
 The Jubilee Number of "Zihna”
 August Bebel
 The Successes of the American Workers
 Harry Quelch
 Socialism and War  THE ATTITUDE OF THE R.S.D.L.P. TOWARDS THE WAR  (Extract)
 Appeal on the War  (Extract)
 The Youth International  A REVIEW
 Fourth Conference of Trade Unions and Factory  Committees of Moscow  June 27 - July 2, 1918  REPLY TO THE DEBATE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION  June 28, 1918  (Extract)
 Letter to Sylvia Pankhurst  TO COMRADE SYLVIA PANKHURST, LONDON
 Greetings to Italian, French and German Communists
 A Publicist’s Notes  (Extract)
 Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Congress  of the Communist International  (Extract)
 II WHAT IMMEDIATE AND UNIVERSAL PREPARATION  FOR THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT SHOULD  CONSIST IN
 III RECTIFICATION OF THE POLITICAL LINE-PARTLY ALSO  OF THE COMPOSITION-OF PARTIES AFFILIATED OR DESIRING  TO AFFILIATE TO THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
 The Second Congress of the Communist International  July 19—August 7, 1920  SPEECH ON AFFILIATION TO THE BRITSH LABOUR PARTY  August 6  (Extract)
 Kommunismus  JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL FOR THE  COUNTRIES OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE (IN GERMAN), VIENNA,  No. 1-2 (February 1, 1920) to No. 18 (May 8,1920)
 The Terms of Admission into the Communist  International  (Extracts)
 On the Struggle within the Italian Socialist Party  (Extracts)
 To Comrade Thomas Bell
 On the Significance of Militant Materialism
 Section VIII
 THE TASKS OF THE PRESS IN BUILDING  A SOCIALIST SOCIETY
 Original Version of the Article "The Immediate Tasks  of the Soviet Government"  VERBATIM REPORT  (Extract)
 The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government  (Extract)  THE ORGANISATION OF COMPETITION
 The Character of Our Newspapers
 The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky  (Extract)
 A Great Beginning  HEROISM OF THE WORKERS IN THE REAR.  "COMMUNIST SUBBOTNIKS"  (Extracts)
 The Fight to Overcome the Fuel Crisis  CIRCULAR LETTER TO PARTY ORGANISATIONS  (Extracts)
 Ninth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)  March 20 - April 5, 1920  SPEECH CLOSING THE CONGRESS  April 5  (Extract)
 Theses on Production Propaganda  ROUGH DRAFT  (Extract)
 Integrated Economic Plan  (Extracts)
 To G. M. Krzhizhanovsky  (Extract)
 To I. M. Gubkin
 Instructions of the Council of Labour and Defence  to Local Soviet Bodies  DRAFT  (Extracts)
 Speech on Local Economic Bodies Delivered at a Sitting  of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee  May, 30 1921  (Extracts)
 Letter to the Central Statistical Board  TO THE MANAGER OF THE CENTRAL STATISTICAL BOARD  (Extracts)
 Letter to the Editors of Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn
 Letter to D. I. Kursky and Instruction to a Secretary  (Extract)
 Note to G. I. Krumin
 Eleventh Congress of the R.C.P.(B.)  March 27 - April 2, 1922  POLITICAL REPORT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE R.C.P. (B)  March 27  (Extracts)
 Decree on the Functions of the Deputy Chairmen of the  Council of People’s Commissars and of the Council of  Labour and Defence  II SPECIFIC QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE WORK OF THE DEPUTY  CHAIRMEN  (Extract)
 To N. Osinsky
 To N. P. Gorbunov  (Extract)
 To A. S. Kiselyov
 Section IX
 PRINCIPLES OF EDITORIAL WORK  NEWSPAPER STYLE
 Article for "Rabochaya Gazeta"  LETTER TO THE EDITORIAL GROUP
 To P. B. Axel rod  (Extract)
 To Y. M. Steklov  (Extract)
 To G. V. Plekhanov
 To P. B. Axelrod
 To the Borba Group
 To G. V. Plekhanov
 To P. B. Axelrod  (Extract)
 To G. V. Plekhanov  (Extract)
 To P. B. Axelrod  (Extract)
 To P. B. Axelrod
 To G. V. Plekhanov
 To A. A. Bogdanov
 To P. B. Axelrod  (Extract)
 To G. V. Plekhanov
 To G. V. Plekhanov  (Extract)
 To A. A. Bogdcmov
 To the Secretary of the Majority Committees’ Bureau
 To A. V. Lunacharsky
 To A. V. Lunacharsky
 To A. V. Lunacharsky
 To Maxim Gorky
 To A. V. Lunacharsky  (Extract)
 To Maxim Gorky
 To G. V. Zinoviev
 To A. I. Lyubimov  (Extract)
 To Maxim Gorky  (Extract)
 To Maxim Gorky
 To Maxim Gorky
 Put Your Cards on the Table  (Extract)
 To the Editor of Zvezda
 To B. N. Knipovich  (Extract)
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editor of Pravda  (Extract)
 To the Editor of Pravda  (Extract)
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editorial Board of Pravda
 To Maxim Gorky
 To Maxim Gorky  (Extract)
 To Maxim Gorky
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editor of Pravda
 A Letter to J. V. Stalin
 To the Editor of Pravda
 To the Editorial Board of Pravda
 To the Editorial Board of Pravda
 To the Editorial Board of Pravda
 Educated Deputies
 To Maxim Gorky
 To the Editorial Board of Pravda
 To the Editorial Board of Za Pravdu
 To V. M. Kasparov  (Extract)
 To the Editors of Put Pravdy
 To the Editorial Board of Pravda Truda
 "Neighbouring Squires"  (Extract)
 To the Editors of Put Pravdy  (Extract)
 To Y. Larin
 To J. S. Hcmecki and Karl Radek  (Extract)
 To the Bureau of the Central Committee Abroad  (Extracts)
 The Revolutionary Phrase  (Extract)
 The Itch  (Extract)
 To G. M. Krzhizhanovsky
 Stop Spoiling the Russian Language  SOME THOUGHTS AT LEISURE, i.e., WHILE LISTENING  TO SPEECHES AT MEETINGS
 Preface to the Pamphlet Old Articles on Almost New  Subjects  PREFACE TO THE 1922 EDITION  (Extract)
 Appendices
 Journalistic Work of V. I. Lenin
 Index of Periodicals
 Name Index
 Contents
 Section I
 TRADITIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC AND PROLETARIAN PRESS
 Section II
 FUNCTIONS AND TASKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRESS
 Section III
 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRESS
 Section IV
 FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
 Section V
 THE BOURGEOIS PRESS
 Section VI
 THE OPPORTUNIST PRESS
 Section VII
 THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS’ AND COMMUNIST PRESS
 Section VIII
 THE PARTY PRESS IN BUILDING A SOCIALIST SOCIETY
 Section IX
 PRINCIPLES OF EDITORIAL WORK. NEWSPAPER STYLE
		
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