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Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Volume 1.

Biblioteca / 1970-1979

Ralph Carter Elwood, editor. The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, 1899-October 1917.

University of Toronto Press, 1974.

340 páginas.

Contents

General Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Preface

Introduction

1898

I Party Congress (March)

Manifesto of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Decisions of the Congress

1903

II Party Congress (July-August)

Programme of the RSDRP

Organizational Rules of the RSDRP

On Local Organizations

On the Place of the Bund in the Party

On the Withdrawal of the Bund from the Party

On the Central Organ of the Party

On Party Literature

On the Presentation of Propaganda

On the Attitude toward the Liberals

On the Party of the Socialist Revolutionaries

On Demonstrations

On the Trade Union Struggle

On the Attitude toward Students

1905

III Party Congress (April)

Party Rules (21 April 1905)

On Propaganda and Agitation

On the Central Organ of the Party

On the Armed Uprising

On a Provisional Revolutionary Government

On the Attitude toward the Government’s Tactics on the Eve of the Revolution

On the Question of Overt Political Activity by the RSDRP

On Support of the Peasant Movement

On Practical Agreements with Socialist Revolutionaries

On the Attitude toward the National Social Democratic Organizations

On Divergent Parts of the Party

On Preparing Conditions for Unity with the Mensheviks

On the Dissolution of Committees which Refuse to Accept the Decisions of the III Congress

I All-Russian Menshevik Conference (April)

On Relations Between the Two Parts of the Party

Organizational Rules

On Party Literature

On the Armed Uprising

On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional Government

On Participation in Elections to Representative Institutions

On the Attitude toward Other Revolutionary and Opposition Parties

On Trade Unions

On Informal Organizations

On Work with the Peasantry

Conference of Social Democratic Organizations in Russia (September)

On the State Duma

II All-Russian Menshevik Conference (November)

On Party Membership

On the Organization of the Party

On the Unification of the Bolshevik and Menshevik Factions

Conference of the Majority (December)

On Merging the Centres

[On the Rapid Merger of Parallel Local Organizations]

On the Calling of a Unification Congress of the RSDRP

On Party Reorganization

Agrarian Resolution

On the State Duma

1906

Unified Central Committee (January)

[On Party Unity]

Unification Congress (April)

Organizational Rules

Agrarian Programme

Tactical Resolution on the Agrarian Question

On the Attitude toward the Peasant Movement

On the Armed Uprising

On Partisan Activities

On the Attitude toward the State Duma

On Trade Unions

Conditions for the Merger of the Social Democrats of Poland and Lithuania with the RSDRP

Draft Conditions for the Unification of the Bund with the RSDRP

I All-Russian Conference of the RSDRP (November)

On the Tactics of the RSDRP during the Election Campaign

On Electoral Unity at the Local Level

1907

London Congress (April-May)

Organizational Rules

On Attitudes toward Non-Proletarian Parties

On the Workers’ Congress and Non-Party Workers’ Organizations

On the State Duma

On Relations between the Duma Fraction and the Central Committee

On Partisan Activities

On Trade Unions

II All-Russian Conference of the RSDRP (July)

[On Participation in the Elections to the III Duma]

[On Alliances in the Duma Elections]

III All-Russian Conference of the RSDRP (November)

On Factional Centres and Strengthening of Ties between the Central Committee and the Local Organizations

On Participation in the Bourgeois Press

1908

Central Committee on Legal Activities (February-March)

On Trade Unions

[On Co-operatives]

Plenum of the Central Committee (August)

The Organization of the Central Committee

December All-Russian Conference of the RSDRP (December)

On the Tasks of the Party at the Present Moment

On the Reports to the Conference

On the Work of the Central Committee

On the Organizational Question

On the Unification of National Organizations at the Local Level

On the Social Democratic Duma Fraction

1910

Plenum of the Central Committee (January)

Rules of the Central Committee

On the Central Organ

On Factional Centres

On the Newspaper Pravda

On the Vpered Group

On the Party School

On Derogations from Party Discipline

On Convening the Next All-Party Conference

1911

Meeting of Members of the Central Committee (May-June)

On Calling a Party Conference

On Creating a Technical Commission

Bern Meeting (August)

On the Attitude toward the Technical and Organizational Commissions

On the Party Conference

1912

Prague Conference of the RSDRP (January)

Changes in the Organizational Rules of the Party

On the Party’s Tasks at the Present Moment

On the Reports from the Local Organizations

On the Character and Organizational Forms of Party Work

On the Elections to the IV State Duma

On the Social Democratic Tasks in the Fight against Hunger

On the Attitude toward the Draft Duma Law on State Insurance for Workers

On the Central Organ

On Liquidationism and the Group of Liquidators

On the Party Organization Abroad

Paris Meeting (February)

[On the Prague Conference]

August Conference (August)

On the Organizational Committee

On Organizational Unity

On the Polish Socialist Party

On the Organizational Forms of Party Development

On the Economic Struggle

On Electoral Tactics

On Unity in the Election Campaign

On the Insurance Laws of 23 June 1912

On the Recent Events in the Army and the Navy

On the Question of National-Cultural Autonomy

1913

Cracow Meeting of the Central Committee (December 1912-January)

On the Revolutionary Resurgence, Strikes, and the Party’s Tasks

On the Structure of the Illegal Organization

On the Attitude toward Liquidationism and on Unity

On the ‘National’ Social Democratic Organizations

On the Insurance Campaign

On the Reorganization and Work of the Pravda Editorial Board

Poronin Meeting of the Central Committee (September-October)

On the Strike Movement

On the Party Press

On the Social Democratic Duma Fraction

On Work in Legal Organizations

On the Nationality Question

On the Organizational Question and the Party Congress

Meeting of the Central Committee (December)

On the Activities of the Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Fraction

For the Guidance of Pravda‘s Editors

1914

Meeting of the Central Committee (April)

On Calling the Party Congress

On Establishing an Organizational Section of the Central Committee for the Leadership of Underground Work

Central Committee on the War (September)

The War and Russian Social Democracy

1917

Russian Bureau of the Central Committee (February-March)

To All Citizens of Russia

On Tactical Tasks

[On the Question of the Publication of a Party Organ]

[On the Attitude toward the Soviet]

[On Relations between the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies and the Provisional Government]

On the War

[On the Return of Stalin, Kamenev, and Muranov]

[On the Question of Pravda]

[On the Editorial Board of Pravda]

[On Party Unity]

On Party Membership

On the Provisional Government

On War and Peace

Menshevik Organizational Committee (March)

On the Attitude toward War and Peace

[On the Attitude toward the Provisional Government]

All-Russian Meeting of Party Workers (March-April)

On the War

On the Attitude toward the Provisional Government

Central Committee on the April Crisis (April)

On the Provisional Government’s Note of 18 April 1917

[On Peaceful Demonstrations]

[On Dual Power]

VII All-Russian Conference of the RSDRP (April)

On the War

On Uniting with the Internationalists against the Petty Bourgeois Defencist Bloc

On the Attitude toward the Provisional Government

On a Coalition Ministry

On the Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies

On the Agrarian Question

On the Nationality Question

All-Russian Conference of Menshevik and United Organizations of the RSDRP (May)

On the Attitude toward the Provisional Government

On the War

On Fraternization

On the Attitude toward the Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies

On Labour Policy

On Agrarian Policy

On Party Unity

Central Committee on Worker Control of lndustry (May)

On Measures to Cope with Economic Dislocation

Central Committee on the June Demonstrations (June)

Appeal to All Toilers, Workers, and Soldiers of Petrograd

[On the Cancellation of the Planned Demonstration]

Central Committee on the July Days (July)

Appeal to the Workers and Soldiers of Petrograd

On the Demonstration

[On Accusations that Lenin is a German Agent]

Menshevik Organizational Committee (July)

[On the Current Situation]

Expanded Meeting of the Central Committee (July)

On the Current Situation

VI Party Congress (July-August)

Rules of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

On the Current Situation and the War

On the Political Situation

On the Economic Situation

On the Party and the Trade Union Movement

On the Electoral Campaign for the Constituent Assembly

On Propaganda

On Party Unification

On Comrade Lenin’s Failure to Appear before the Court

Central Committee on the Subordination of the Military Organization (August)

[On Rabochii i soldat]

[On the Publication of Soldat]

[On the Central Bureau of Military Organizations]

Menshevik ‘Unification’ Congress (August)

On the Organization of the Party

On the Political Situation and the Tasks of the Party

On War and Peace

On Election Tactics and the Organization of the Election Campaign

Central Committee on the Kornilov Revolt (August)

[Appeal Not to Yield to Provocation]

[Telegram to Local Party Organizations]

[On Activities in the Committee for the Struggle against Counter-Revolution]

[Appeal to All the Toilers, Workers, and Soldiers of Petrograd]

Central Committee on Preparations for the October Revolution (August-October)

On Power

[Report of the Organizational Bureau]

[On a New Presidium for the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies]

[On Lenin’s Suggestion to Seize Power]

[On Participation in the Democratic Conference]

[On the Peace Declaration of the Democratic Conference]

[On Use of the Term ‘Comrade’]

[On the Pre-Parliament]

[On the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies]

On the Current Situation and the Tasks of the Proletariat

[On Calling an Extraordinary Party Congress]

[On Bolshevik Candidates for the Constituent Assembly]

[On the Situation in Moscow and the Return of Lenin]

[On Establishing a Bureau for Information on the Struggle against Counter-Revolution]

[On an Armed Uprising]

[On Establishing a Politburo]

[On theArmed Uprising]

[On the Military Revolutionary Centre]

[On the Actions of Zinoviev and Kamenev]

[Debate on the Military Revolutionary Committee]

[On the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet]

[Debate on the II Congress of Soviets]

[On Defensive Preparations]

[Debate on Relations with the Central Executive Committee and on the Assignment of Central Committee Members]

[Debate on Establishing an Auxiliary Headquarters]