V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v10; en:CW/CW41;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

THE THIRD CONGRESS AND ITS DECISIONS

A) Why did a Congress and a Conference come about?

B) The organisational question at the Congress and at the Conference.

C) Tactical questions at the Congress and at the Conference.

B) Three main points of the organisational work of the Third Congress:

B b)

1) Clause 1.

2) “Single centre”.

3) “Guarantee of the rights of the minority”.

B c) The organisational Rules of the Conference.

(1) Leading “collectives” (?).

(2) “Local organisation” (? and Clause 1?).

(3) The C.C. and the O.C. – and the O.C.

(4) Terms of agreement?

C)

4 1. The Provisional Revolutionary Government.

3 2. The Armed Uprising.

2 3. The Present Political Situation.

1 4. Attitude towards Other Revolutionary and Opposition Parties.

5 5. Executive Commission.

4 4. C.C. = P.C. + representatives of regional committees = conference.

3 3. Regional committees = elected by regional congresses.

2 2. Regional congresses = delegates of leading collectives.

The Mensheviks’ conditions

“The whole Party, i.e., the mass of its actual members, must be represented”

“Can tactical questions be decided without preliminary discussion by the whole Party? Is it not frivolous… armed uprising… even in the literature the disputes have only just begun” (p. 10)

“We have heard” (pp. 10–11).