DRAFT RESOLUTION ON ARMED UPRISING

In Lenin Miscellany V on p. 494, among the resolutions planned for the congress, along with the "open" resolution on the uprising, there was also a "secret" one, i.e., not to be published. Further, on p. 497, the content of this resolution is partially revealed: "the necessity of creating an organization and organizations of a militant character." The draft resolution printed below had in mind this "secret" resolution. At the congress, a special "secret" resolution was not proposed, since the adopted resolution partially covered the main points of both resolutions.
* DRAFT RESOLUTION ON ARMED UPRISING.
[End of April 1905. London.]
The congress establishes, based on the experience of practitioners and the mood of the working masses, that the preparation of an uprising should be understood not only as the preparation of weapons and the creation of groups, etc., but also as the accumulation of experience through practical attempts at individual armed actions, e.g., [the action of armed] armed resistance of special detachments [attacking the police and troops attacking the police and troops
proletarians in cases of those or other open popular gatherings or attacks by armed [units] on prisons, governmental] institutions, etc. Fully entrusting to the local centers of the party and the Central Committee the determination of the boundaries of such actions and the most convenient pretexts for them, fully relying on the tact of comrades capable of preventing [useless squandering! useless
waste of forces in isolated and petty terroristic] acts, the congress draws the attention of all party organizations to the necessity of taking into account the above indications of experience.
Most likely, the sketch of the addition to the resolution on the participation of social democrats in the provisional government, printed below, was made at the 42nd session of the congress on May 2 (April 29), during Krasin's speech. Lenin, in his speech, particularly noted this part of Krasin's выступление: "The importance of the goal of the struggle is indicated by Comrade Zimin [Krasin]. Ed. correct" (Works, vol. VII, p. 275).

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* ADDITION TO THE RESOLUTION ON THE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATS IN THE
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.
May 2, 1905. London.
Another argument for participation in the Provisional revolutionary
government
— [that the unconditional refusal of our party already now] that the unreserved recommended by the right wing of our party already now
refusal to participate in the [impending! provisional revolutionary] government inevitably [condemns] would condemn the activities of the revolutionary proletariat to indecisiveness, half-heartedness, and fragmentation] in preparing, organizing
and [conducting] the armed uprising; — Below is printed a summary of Lenin's speech at the III Congress on
the report of the Central Committee (L. Krasin and D. Lyubimov), delivered on if 8 May
(April 25) 4905 (Works, vol. F/U, p. 292, Congress Minutes,
published 4924, p. 485).
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SUMMARY OF LENIN'S SPEECH (25TH SESSION)/
[May 8, 1905. London.]
Summary of my speech on the report of the Central Committee. 25th session.
1) Not technology, but politics
2) Progress of technology
3) Accusation of inactivity is [raised]
I) squabble and co-optation
ôj «sitting it out» active] work for party-mindedness
6) struggle against congress. «Sacred right» to dis-miss!
7) «more joy [over] 1 sinner [who] repents than 99 righteous».

See above, p. 100.
*
Here Lenin made a note: "to p. 6", apparently referring to the page of the manuscript of the minutes. Ed.

LETTER TO L. A.-FOTIEVA

There were no stenographers at the III Congress. Secretarial records
of the regular session were kept by two delegates, with this duty
performed in turn. The secretaries formalized the minutes of their
session and then regularly read them out at the plenum and
approved them. The note: "Tuesday. 61/2 hours" indicates
the approval of the minutes at the penultimate — 25th session
of the congress on Tuesday, May 9 (April 26). The minutes of the 24th, 25th and 26th
sessions were approved at the last session on May 10. Lenin's notes
record the work of the congress more accurately than the published Minutes of the [[[ Congresses (cf. Minutes published in 1924, pp. 49i and 500).
STATUS OF THE MINUTES.
[May 9, 1905] Tuesday 6!/o p.m. [London.]
16 (Bur) (ready) is; ready
17 Volgin, Vlasov (3 hours)
ready
18 Varenka, Lyubich (72 hours)
ready
21 Panov and Shchur.
>* 2 hours)
ready
22 Sommer (in 1 hour finished
23 (a) Vladimirov (ready) j (b) Varenka, Antonov
•
(about 2 hours)
)
ready ready
24 and 25 Vladimirov (ready)
26th last session Vladimirov
B. FIRST ORGANIZATIONAL STEPS AFTER THE III CONGRESS
II POLEMIC IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONGRESS
JULY — SEPTEMBER
G. GENEVA.
Û. N.
* LETTER TO L. A. FOTIEVA WITH A PROPOSAL TO ORGANIZE
A LECTURE ON THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE III CONGRESS.
1 or 2 June 1905. Geneva.
Dearest kitty!
I just sent you a telegram. Just in case, I'll clarify what's up. I've been summoned to Paris on one matter. I'm deter- mined not to waste the trip just because of this, but to give
a lecture. The topic: "The Third Congress and its resolutions." Content: pa-i
rallel analysis of our and Menshevik decisions:2 they have just released a notice about their conference and I will be
analyzing it. [I'd like to] I can lecture [exactly] only on Tuesday
(I will arrive on Monday, but my evening will be busy) and certainly
must finish in one day. If possible, rent the largest hall (where I lectured against Struve—Filatov and others know)3
and notify the maximum number of the public. If you have not yet telegraphed
me clearly your answer, then telegraph tomorrow, so that I
know exactly: have you rented the hall? You might even manage to write me cxpress'oM (so that I receive it no later than Sunday
morning), but if you need to communicate anything important, be sure
to telegraph.
Today I'm lecturing here on the same thing.
Tenlz| s’il vfous] plait!* Shake your hand. Yours, Lenin
If, contrary to expectations, it turns out that it is impossible to give a lec-
ture, then I might even not come at all. Therefore, be sure
to answer.
1 The letter was written immediately after the publication of the Menshevik
pamphlet "The First All-Russian Conference of Party Work-
ers", published as a separate appendix to LZ 100 of "Iskra"
of May 28 (16), 1905. "Most likely, judging by the calculation of days for receiving a response from L. Fotieva, Lenin wrote to her on Thursday, June 1 or on
Friday, June 2.
2 The lecture on the III Congress took place both in Geneva (June 1 or 2) and in Paris (see document "III Congress and its Resolutions" below).
3 Lenin lectured on the topic "Social Democracy and Liberalism" in Paris in early December 1904. P. Struve gave a major speech there directed against Lenin. Materials and a plan for this lecture are printed in Lenin Miscellany V, p. 67.
The document printed below represents the materials and
plan of Lenin's report on the topic "The III Congress and its Resolutions".
read by Lenin in June 4905 and in Paris. This re- port is mentioned in Lenin's letter to L. Fotieva (see above p. 105).
—
Please answer! Peô.