Date: 1905-10-19
Source: ru:LS/v5

* TO THE ARTICLE “LESSONS OF THE MOSCOW EVENTS.”
[October 19, 1905]
The documents printed below constitute a draft outline
and two proposed plans for the article “Lessons of the Moscow Events,” which appeared in Proletarii, No. 22, dated October 24 [44] (1905) (Works, Vol. 8, pp. 544–548).
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L E S S O N S  O F  T H E  M O S C O W  E V E N T S .
1. Some results, not all1).
2. Facts. Stagnation on the theater of war.
Sandepu before
Mukden2).
3. (1) Partial authorization of assemblies — (2) a profound intensification of the crisis — (3) the betrayal of the liberals. — (4) revolution in the streets3).
Compare a.
4.
Typical:
(1) the breach (and the State Duma) — (2) the escalation (always4) of “springtime,” the press, etc. — (3) always —
(4) — The finale.
Compare (3: the liberal-monarchist camp versus the revolutionary-democratic camp].

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How should we exploit the breach?
Two paths5)
a) Liberal sobriety b) “We must not shy away”6)... (the opportunist tail of the Social Democrats])
c) Press on!
6. “Do not hinder the liberals”7) Vossische Zeitung Abweiger8).— compare with u.
7. In the struggle between two opposing forces, the liberals are torn asunder = betrayal.
How negligible is that?9) Both yes and no.
8. The alignment of forces.
Treпов (the liberals) — the proletariat + revolutionary democracy. — compare with 8.
What drove them to action? By means of an uprising. — compare with e.
Compare with C.
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Its progress...
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1)
“Untouched virgin territory.”
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The popular masses are seething. ((Novoe Vremya)).
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2) Partial arming.
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3) Operations carried out with greater deliberation.
11. The opportunist tail of the Social Democrats.
a) No agreement whatsoever with the constitutionalist democrats
— no agreements over the State Duma.
b) The terms of the conference — the terms put forward by Parvus, Cherevanin, Martov10).
c) A revolutionary government or a representative body — democratic organizations or the State Duma.
12. The opportunist tail of the Social Democrats = “as if we must not shy away”... For the revolution is bourgeois in character.
13. The “program” of the Russian Revolution has been fully outlined and delineated.
If we are to make sense of predictions regarding future military operations, then the result is this: new breaches (in assemblies, in the press, in the State Duma) — Press on! — The liberals will take notice —
9.
The liberals are the best men of their class. (Professors, etc.)
Compare 15a–158.
10. The same inevitability holds true within the State Duma as well. Should we press even harder?
No, the liberals have retreated; compare with them