Date: May 3, 1905
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 26
Pages: 219-219

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b) as a practical slogan of agitation among the peasantry and as a means of introducing the greatest consciousness into the peasant movement, to advance the necessity of the immediate organization of revolutionary peasant committees with the aim of carrying out all revolutionary-democratic transformations in the interests of delivering the peasantry from police-bureaucratic and landlord oppression;

[c) to recommend to the peasants refusal to fulfill military service obligation]

c) in order to disorganize the autocracy and support the revolutionary assault upon it, to call upon the peasantry and rural proletariat to all manner of political demonstrations, to collective refusal to pay taxes and levies, to refusal to fulfill military service obligation and [(any)] decrees and orders of the government and its agents;

d) to strive [for the introduction of representatives of the rural proletariat into peasant committees and] toward the independent organization [of it, calling upon the rural proletariat] of the rural proletariat, toward its merger with the urban proletariat under the banner of the Social-Democratic [workers'] party, and toward the introduction of its representatives into peasant committees.

Adopted unanimously at the 45th session

1 This draft resolution on the attitude toward the peasant movement was introduced at the 15th session of the III Congress on May 3, 1905 (see Protocols, pp. 283-284). All amendments proposed at the Congress were rejected, and the resolution was adopted unanimously. The preliminary draft of the resolution read at the 14th session of the Congress is printed in Collected Works VII, 280. It was preceded by a variant printed in Lenin Collected Works V, 267-268.

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NOTE¹.
[May 3 (April 20) 1905]
45th session.

I consider the adoption of a resolution (on the relations of workers to the intelligentsia) timely.

—Lenin.

1 By a decision of the Congress on May 3, the question of relations between workers and the intelligentsia in party organizations was first postponed until the adoption of the party statutes, and then on May 5, in a roll-call vote, it was decided not to adopt a resolution on this question at all.