Date: 1903-06
Source: ru:PSS/v54
Source: CW vol 54

The League unites all members of the RSDP abroad into a society with the aim of propaganda and agitation abroad, as well as any support to the Russian movement. The League has all the rights of a committee, with the sole exception that in the field of propaganda and agitation it acts under the direct guidance of the Central Organ, and any support to the Russian movement it provides only through persons or groups specially appointed by the Central Committee.

The League aims at propaganda and agitation abroad, as well as support to the Russian movement. The League has all the rights of a committee, with the sole exception that it provides support to the Russian movement only* through persons or groups specially appointed by the Central Committee.

May - June 1903

PLAN FOR THE ARTICLE "THE FALL OF PORT-ARTUR"**

The Fall (Capitulation) of Port-Artur

NB: C r i m i n a l i g n o r a n c e*** ("Times")

Colonial adventure with Manchuria.

* In the margin next to these words, V. I. Lenin wrote: "it conducts all relations with Russia and Russian committees only." During the editing of the draft, V. I. Lenin crossed out these words. Ed.

** See the article "The Fall of Port-Artur" in Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 9, pp. 151-159. Ed.

*** - Criminal ignorance. Ed.

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Military significance Main goal of the Japanese.

Destruction of the fleet.

Causes of military defeat
The Tsar's plan:
200,000 for
Kuropatkin.

Provision?

Artillery?
(300 million rubles)
48,000 prisoners.

Victory in the main.

Multiplication of dangers for Kuropatkin.

Impossibility of recapturing
Port-Artur
Unpreparedness.

Bureaucracy.

Thefts etc.

Low level of officers soldiers
Showy side
Fleet crew cf. "Independance
Belge" "Wars are waged by peoples."
"Times": Criminal ignorance of strategy*.

World-political significance.

Childish consolations:
It's easier for Kuropatkin!!
"Frankfurter
Zeitung" cf. "Vossische
Zeitung" excerpts 757.

Center of gravity -
Pacific Ocean.

Asia defeated Europe.

Expansion of the world market etc.

The capitulation of Port-Artur is the first step towards the capitulation of tsarism
[an irreparable break in autocracy].

Wars and their revolutionary significance: weakness of the revolutionary
classes.

War and its sentimental condemnation. Class point of view.
"Speculation".

War and class struggle.

Miseries of war.

* - Criminal ignorance in strategy. Ed.

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Written in the second half of

First published in 1927 in the Lenin Collection VI

Printed from the manuscript