THE TASKS OF THE PROLETARIAT IN THE REVOLUTION AFTER JANUARY 9

the danger of such a policy, decided to save the government against its own will" (an English bourgeois inadvertently spoke a great truth about Russian liberals!).

"The Organization of lawyers (the lawyers Organisation) throughout Russia numbers 120,000 supporters in various professions. These 120,000 doctors, lawyers, chemists (chemist), teachers and engineers will all strike at once if the government does not break its silence, a silence like that of the sphinx." (The correspondent is apparently conveying here St. Petersburg conversations.) "Another interesting movement aims to unite the leading liberal statesmen and senior officials. The initiator of this movement is Count Toll, former St. Petersburg governor. The question is of presenting in the coming days a memorandum to the Council of Ministers, in which the signatories recommend the convening of an assembly with legislative power, with the right of interpellation and with budget control. These proposals in practice coincide with the recent memorandum drawn up by the nobility leaders gathered in Moscow, which is now being discussed and adopted by nobles in various provinces."

You can see it better from the outside! The English correspondent evaluates the actual intentions of the actually ruling reactionary clique in Russia remarkably accurately. We need only repeat his conclusion as instructive advice for all friends of freedom:

"They (= autocracy) will not yield to anything except under pressure of the most extreme necessity, and even then they will yield only with the secret intention of making the entire concession illusory."

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* THE TASKS OF THE PROLETARIAT IN THE REVOLUTION AFTER JANUARY 9 AND THE BULYGIN DECEPTION/*

(May 1905. Geneva.)

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1. "Spring" of words and filth of deeds.

2. The Bulygin deception.

3. War and the collapse of the governmental system.

4. Ruin, hunger, cholera...

5. St. Petersburg, Riga, Warsaw etc. 9

6. Baku and the menacing anti-Jewish movement.

7. Revolutionary strike and revolutionary movement of January 9 and after. Long live the Revolution!

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8. Peasant movement. Its suppression and its aims.

9. Constituent Assembly and temporary revolutionary government.

10. Struggle for the republic and all democratic freedoms.

11. Proletarian struggle for the republic and for socialism.

12. Revolutionary Russian proletariat at the head of the worldwide revolutionary proletariat.

I. In general.

What has it come to? 1—4.

Working-class movement. 5 and 7.

Government persecution. 6.

Peasant movement. 8.

Armed insurrection.

Aims of the struggle. 9—11.

II. May Day in general.

A. Beginning of the Revolution. 1—6.

B. Struggle of workers and peasants. 7—8.

C. Aims of the struggle. 9—11.

D. The world-historical significance of the Russian Revolution. 12.

*On the back of the manuscript Lenin made a calculation of the letters in the article: "18 Ъ Ъ X 50 = 900 X 9 = approximately 8 thousand letters". —Ed.