# PLAN OF THE ARTICLE "THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR"

Source: PSS vol 54

a. Military significance.
b. Causes of the military collapse.
c. = Collapse of the autocracy.
d. World-historical significance.
e. Assessment of the war.
f. Collapse of the autocracy bis
Continuation of the war and uprising.
a. Immediate military significance.
b. and c.) Significance of the military collapse as the collapse of the political system.

A progressive force has smashed a reactionary stronghold.
d. World-historical significance of the Japanese war.
e. Class assessment of the war.
f. Collapse of the autocracy
Revolution.
"Vossische
Zeitung"
Expansion of popular ferment = slowing down for deepening.

From "Vossische
Zeitung" - formerly handfuls of extremists, the intelligentsia (calms down in 30 years), but now the cities are seething ("Putsche" und "Attentate")*
Apprehensions of the West European bourgeois press.

Previously they underestimated the revolution in Russia, now they even fear for themselves.

A) Significance in the course of the war.

B) Significance of the military collapse and its causes.

Agitation among tens of millions (contra among tens of thousands).

* - "outbursts" and "attempts". Ed.

C) A progressive historical force has smashed a reactionary one.

D) The military collapse and revolution.

War with Russia ("1848").

World-historical significance of the Japanese war.

Class assessment of the war.

The deeper and more certain the collapse.

COMBAT AGREEMENT FOR THE UPRISING
AND FORMATION OF A COMBAT COMMITTEE

PLAN: 758

1) Motivation for the agreement

2) Its aim

3) Programme (1) overthrow of the autocracy
(2) provisional revolutionary government
(3) arming of the people
(4) Constituent Assembly
(5) revolutionary peasant committees.

4) Formation of a preliminary combat committee for the purposes of
(1) collecting monetary funds
(2) ascertaining personal forces
(3) informing the mass of Russian workers about the agreement and broad discussion of the means of implementation
(4) preparing a Russian conference for the formation of a Russian Combat Committee

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Written in December, later than the 20th,
1904 (January 2, 1905)

First published in 1926
in Lenin Miscellany V

Printed from the manuscript