V. I.

Lenin

Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

July 17 (30)-August 10 (23), 1903

4. Draft Resolution on Party Literature

The Congress recognises the absolute and urgent necessity for a wide
production of popular Social-Democratic literature for all sections of the
population, and for the working-class masses in particular.

The Congress considers it necessary in the first place to compile a series
of pamphlets (each ranging from one to five signatures in size) dealing
with each (theoretical and practical) point of our Party programme and
giving a detailed exposition and explanation of that point; and then a
number of leaflets (ranging from one to eight printed pages each) on the
same subjects to be scattered or distributed in town and country. The
Congress instructs the editorial board of the Central Organ to immediately
take all steps to fulfil this task.

Asregards publication of a special popular newspaper for the people or
for the broad sections of the working class, the Congress, though it does
not reject this project in principle, considers it untimely at the
immediate moment.

| Written in June-July 1903 | Published according to the manuscript |
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| First published in 1927 in Lenin Miscellany VI | |