V. I.

Lenin

Resolution Adopted by the Public Meeting in Countess Panina’s Palace, May 9 (22), 1906

This meeting calls the attention of all citizens to the fact that the autocratic
government, by organising riots and constantly intensifying police and military
tyranny, is obviously making a mockery of popular representation, and is
preparing to resort to force in reply to the universal demand for freedom and to
the peasants’ demand for land.

This meeting declares that the party of “people’s freedom” (Cadets)
only timidly and inadequately expresses the people’s demands, and is not
keeping its promise to proclaim the convocation of a national constituent
assembly. We warn the people against this party, which is wavering between
people’s freedom and the old autocratic regime, which is oppressing the people.

This meeting calls upon the Peasant (“Trudovik”) and Workers’ Groups in the
State Duma resolutely to state their respective demands, and the full demands of
the people, absolutely independently of the Cadets.

This meeting calls the attention of all those who value the cause of freedom to
the fact that the behaviour of the autocratic government and its utter failure
to satisfy the needs of the peasants, and of the people as a whole, is making
inevitable a decisive fight outside the Duma, a fight for complete power for the
people, which alone can ensure freedom for the people and meet their needs.

This meeting expresses confidence that the proletariat will continue to be at
the head of all the revolutionary elements of the people.

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