V. I. LENIN

TWO TACTICS
OF
SOCIAL-
DEMOCRACY
IN THE
DEMOCRATIC
 REVOLUTION 


FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1965

First Edition 1965



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

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

C O N T E N T S

PREFACE

    1.  AN URGENT POLITICAL QUESTION

    2.  WHAT DOES THE RESOLUTION OF THE THIRD CONGRESS OF
        THE R.S.D.L.P. ON A PROVISIONAL REVOLUTIONARY
        GOVERNMENT TEACH US?

    3.  WHAT IS A "DECISIVE VICTORY OF THE REVOLUTION
        OVER TSARISM"?

    4.  THE ABOLITION OF THE MONARCHIST SYSTEM AND THE
        REPUBLIC

    5.  HOW SHOULD "THE REVOLUTION BE PUSHED FORWARD"?

    6.  FROM WHAT DIRECTION IS THE PROLETARIAT THREATENED
        WITH THE DANGER OF HAVING ITS HANDS TIED IN THE
        STRUGGLE AGAINST THE INCONSISTENT BOURGEOISIE?

    7.  THE TACTICS OF "ELIMINATING THE CONSERVATIVES FROM
        THE GOVERNMENT"

    8OSVOBOZHDENIYE-ISM AND NEW ISKRA-ISM

    9.  WHAT DOES BEING A PARTY OF EXTREME OF POSITION IN
        TIME OF REVOLUTION MEAN?

  10.  "REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNES" AND THE REVOLUTIONARY-
        DEMOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT AND
        THE PEASANTRY

  11.  A CURSORY COMPARISON BETWEEN SEVERAL OF THE
        RESOLUTIONS OF THE THIRD CONGRESS OF THE R.S.D.L.P.
        AND THOSE OF THE "CONFERENCE"

  12.  WILL THE SWEEP OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION BE
        DIMINISHED IF THE BOURGEOISIE RECOILS FROM IT?

  13.  CONCLUSION. DARE WE WIN?

POSTSCRIPT.  ONCE AGAIN OSVOBOZHDENIYE-ISM, ONCE AGAIN
    NEW ISKRA-ISM

      I.  WHAT DO THE BOURGEOIS LIBERAL REALISTS PRAISE
         THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC "REALISTS" FOR?

     II.  COMRADE MARTYNOV AGAIN RENDERS THE QUESTION
          "MORE PROFOUND"

    III.  THE VULGAR BOURGEOIS REPRESENTATION OF
          DICTATORSHIP AND MARX'S VIEW OF IT

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Written in June-July 1905        

First published as a        
pamphlet in Geneva        
in July 1905        

Published according      
to the text of the pamphlet,  
checked against the manuscript




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