| 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 Marx • A 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. Babushkin • For 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 Babushkin • AN 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 Iskra • IN 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-DEMOCRATS • A. The Beginning of the Spontaneous Upsurge |
| 74 | III TRADE-UNIONIST POLITICS AND SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC POLITICS |
| 81 | IV THE PRIMITIVENESS OF THE ECONOMISTS • AND 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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