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DISCOVERY
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THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
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CONSTITUTIONAL ILLUSIONS SHATTERED
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRANKNESS
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THE QUESTION OF UNITY
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WHAT GOES ON AMONG THE NARODNIKS AND WHAT GOES ON
IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
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AN INCREASING DISCREPANCY
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Notes of a Publicist
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SOME RESULTS OF THE “LAND DISTRIBUTION” POLICY
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THE HISTORICAL DESTINY OF THE DOCTRINE OF KARL MARX
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BIG LANDLORD AND SMALL PEASANT LANDOWNERSHIP IN RUSSIA
FALSE NOTES
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“THE CRUX OF THE MATTER”
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LIBERAL EMBELLISHMENT OF SERFDOM
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A “SCIENTIFIC” SYSTEM OF SWEATING
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OUR “ACHIEVEMENTS”
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AGREEMENT OR SPLIT?
Concerning the Differences Within
the Social-Democratic Duma Group
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“SPARE CASH”
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Notes
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The Life and Work of V
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I L L U S T R A T I O N S
First page of
Nevskaya Zvezda No. 15, of July 1, 1912, in
which Lenin’s articles “The Significance of the St. Petersburg
Elections” and “A Comparison of the Stolypin and the
Narodnik Agrarian Programmes” were published
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First page of Pravda No. 80, of August 1, 1912, in which Part III
of Lenin’s article “The Results of Six Months’ Work”
was published
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First page of Lenin’s manuscript “Concerning Certain
Speeches by Workers’ Deputles”. November 1912
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First page of Lenin’s manuscript “Notification” on the meeting
of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P. and Party functionaries. January 1913
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PREFACE
Volume Eighteen contains works written by V. I. Lenin
from April 1912 to March 1913, during the new revolutionary
upswing in Russia.
The bulk of the volume is made up of writings in which
Lenin analyses the socio-economic and political causes of
the growth of a new revolution in Russia, elaborates the
tactics to be followed by the Bolshevik Party in the condi-
tions of the new revolutionary upswing, and exposes the
counter-revolutionary nature of the liberal bourgeoisie and
the treacherous part played by the Menshevik liquidators,
Trotskyists and Vperyodists in the working-class move-
ment. Among them are the articles “The Revolutionary
Upswing” and “Political Parties in Russia”, the pamphlet
The Present Situation in the R.S.D.L.P., “The Liquida-
tors Against the Party”, “How P. B. Axelrod Exposes the
Liquidators”, etc.
A large number of writings—“The Fourth Duma Election
Campaign and the Tasks of the Revolutionary Social-
Democrats”, “The Platform of the Reformists and the Plat-
form of the Revolutionary Social-Democrats”, “Results of
the Elections”, “Concerning Certain Speeches by Workers’
Deputies”, etc.—are devoted to the Fourth Duma election
campaign, and to appraising the election results and the
activity of the Duma Social-Democratic group.
In “The Essence of the ‘Agrarian Problem in Russia’”,
“A Comparison of the Stolypin and the Narodnik Agrarian
Programmes”, “The Last Valve” and other articles, Lenin
reveals the essence of Stolypin’s agrarian policy and demon-
strates why it was bound to fail.
The resolutions of the “February” meeting of the C.C.
R.S.D.L.P. and Party functionaries, published in this