V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

ARTICLE: “THE LESSONS OF THE MOSCOW EVENTS”

[October 19, 1905]¹

The documents printed below consist of a synopsis and two plans of the article “The Lessons of the Moscow Events”, which was printed in Proletary, No. 22, of October 24 (11), 1905. (See Collected Works, Vol. 9, pp. 344—348.)

27.

G.

THE LESSONS OF THE MOSCOW EVENTS.

1. Some results, not all¹).
2. Facts. Stillstand on the theatre of war.
Sandepu before
Mukden²).
3. (1) Partial concession of meetings — (2) immense intensification of the crisis — (3) betrayal by the liberals. — (4) revolution in the street³).
Compare a.
4.
Typical:
(1)
breach (and the State Duma) —
(2) intensification (always⁴) “spring”, press, etc.) — (3) always —
(4)
— Finale.
Compare (3
liberal-monarchist
contra revolutionary-
democratic].
Lenin Miscellany, V
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5.
How to use the breach?
Two paths⁵)
a) liberal sobriety
β) “so that they do not recoil”⁶)... (opportunist tail of Social-Democracy)
γ) press on
6. “Do not hinder the liberals”⁷) Voss[ische] Z[ei]t[un]g Abwiegler⁸).— compare γ.
7. Liberals in the struggle of two forces vacillate = betrayal.
Quanta negligeable?⁹) Yes and no.
8. Grouping of forces.
Tre[pov] (liberals) — proletariat + revolutionary democracy. — compare 8.
What forced them? Insurrection. — compare e.
Compare C.
I
Its progress...
1)
“untouched virgin soil”.
The mass of the people is seething. ((Novoye Vremya)).
2)
Partial arming.
3)
Operations more sustained.
11. Opportunist tail of Social-Democracy.
a)
No agreement with the Constitutional-Democrats
— agreement over the State Duma.
β) Conditions of the conference — conditions of Parvus, Cherevanin, Martov¹⁰).
γ)
Revolutionary government or representative institution — democratic organisations or the State Duma.
12. Opportunist tail of Social-Democracy = “so that they do not recoil”... Because the revolution is bourgeois.
13. The “programme” of the Russian revolution is fully outlined and delineated.
If predictions of further military actions have any meaning, then result: new breaches (meetings, press, State Duma) — Press on! — Liberals will vacillate —
9.
Liberals — the best
people of their class. (Professors, etc.)
compare 15a — 15b.
10. Idem inevitable in the
State Duma. Press on
still harder?
No, they have
recoiled,
liberals
compare t