Abraham Ascher, ed. The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE

THE ORIGINS OF MENSHEVISM

Lenin’s Resolution on Party Membership / July-August 1903

Martov’s Resolution / July-August 1903

Egorov on the Membership Resolutions / July-August 1903

Axelrod on Party Membership / July-August 1903

Martov on Party Membership / July-August 1903

Lenin on Party Membership / July-August 1903

Plekhanov on Party Membership / July-August 1903

The Unification of Russian Social Democracy and Its Tasks P. Axelrod / December 1903 and 13 January 1904

PART TWO

THE REVOLUTION OF 1905

Letter to Party Organizations / November 1904

Concerning an Armed Uprising / April-May 1905

On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government / April-May 1905

The Peasant Question and the Revolution / 20 November 1905

Axelrod’s Speech at the Fourth Party Congress / April-May 1906

The Menshevik Agrarian Programme Passed by the Fourth Congress / April-May 1906

The People’s Duma and the Workers’ Congress / P. Axelrod, 1905

 Resolution on Partisan Activities Passed by the Fifth Congress / April-May 1907

PART THREE

THE ERA OF REACTION, 1907-1914

Saviours or Destroyers? / L. Martov, 1911

The Struggle for Legality / F. Dan, January-February 1910

Critical Sketches / A. Potresov, 1910

PART FOUR

WORLD WAR I

Declaration of Menshevik and Bolshevik Deputies to the Duma / August 1914

Working-Class Problems of War and Peace / P. Axelrod, S. Lapinski, L. Martov, 1916

Letter Addressed to the Copenhagen Conference, Potresov and his Colleagues, 1915

PART FIVE

THE REVOLUTION OF 1917

A Menshevik Statement on the Provisional Government / 7 March 1917

Tsereteli on War Aims / 2 April 1917

Tsereteli’s Speech on Returning from Siberian Exile / 21 March 1917

The Mensheviks on Lenin’s Programme / 6 April 1917

Policies of the Provisional Government / I. G. Tsereteli, 19 June 1917

The Mensheviks Explain / July 1917

Resolution of the Defensist Group / A. N. Potresov, August 1917

Martov Urges Soviet to Seize Power / 16 July 1917

Martov’s Resolution: Introduced at Meeting of Executive Committee of Soviets / 17 July 1917

A Menshevik Appeal to Workers and Soldiers / 6 November 1917

PART SIX

BOLSHEVIK RULE

Statement by the Menshevik Internationalists / 9 November 1917

Suppression of the Press / 22 November 1917

The Constituent Assembly / 27 December 1918-1 January 1919

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk / L. Martov

To All Working Men and Women. What Is To Be Done? / 12 July 1919

Letter to our German Comrades / L. Martov, 28 December 1918

Speech to the Seventh All-Russian Congress of Soviets / F. Dan, November 1919

The Dictatorship of a Revolutionary Minority / L. Martov, 1920

Resolutions of the Party Conference / March-April 1920

Resolution on the International / 12 March 1920

Dictatorship and Democracy / L. Martov, 1919

Speech at the International Socialist Conference at Bern / P. Axelrod, February 1919

Comrade Axelrod on the Struggle Against Bolshevism / 20 April 1921

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