V. I. Lenin

THE TASKS OF THE PROLETARIAT
IN OUR REVOLUTION

DRAFT PLATFORM FOR THE PROLETARIAN PARTY



First published September 1917
as a pamphlet by Priboi
Publishers
Signed: N. Lenin

Published according to
the pamphlet text
 
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1964

Vol. 24, pp. 55-91.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by Bernard Isaacs


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (December 1997)


THE TASKS OF THE PROLETARIAT IN OUR REVOLUTION Draft
  Platform for the Proletarian Party

 


   

The Class Character of the Revolution That Has Taken
  Place  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Foreign Policy of the New Government .   .   .   .   .   .
The Peculiar Nature of the Dual Power and Its Class
  Significance .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Peculiar Nature of the Tactics Which Follow from the
  Above  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Revolutionary Defencism and Its Class Significance .   .   .
How Can the War Be Ended? .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
A New Type of State Emerging from Our Revolution  .   .   .
The Agrarian and National Programmes  .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Nationalisation of the Banks and Capitalist Syndicates .   .
The Situation Within the Socialist International  .   .   .   .
The Collapse of the Zimmerwald International. -- The Need
  for Founding a Third International .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
What Should Be the Name of Our Party -- One That Will Be
  Correct Scientifically and Help to Clarify the Mind of the
  Proletariat Politically?  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Postscript   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
 


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