V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905

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DRAFT AGENDA OF THE THIRD PARTY
CONGRESS {3}

A) Tactical questions .

1. Armed uprising.

[2. Participation of Social-Democracy in a provisional revolutionary
government.] {1}

2. Preparations for open political action by Social-Democracy.

3. Social-Democracy’s attitude to the government’s policy on the eve of
the revolution, during the revolution and after it.

4. Attitude to the peasant movement.

B) Attitude to other parties and trends .

5. Attitude to the splinter section of the Russian Social-Democratic
Labour Party.

6. Attitude to non-Russian Social-Democratic parties and organisations
in Russia.

7. Attitude to the liberals.

8. Attitude to the Socialist-Revolutionaries.

C) Party organisation .

9. Party Rules.

10. Relations between workers and intellectuals in Party organisations.

D) Internal Party work .

11. Delegates’ reports.

12. Improvement of propaganda and agitation.

[13. May
Day.] {2}

14. Election of functionaries.

15. Procedure governing the publication of minutes and entry into
office of new institutions.

| Motioned on April 13 (26) | Printed from the original |
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| First published in 1934 in Lenin Miscellany XXVI | |

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Notes:
{1}
The text in brewer in square brackets is crossed out in the
MS.— Ed .

{2}
The text in brevier in square brackets is crossed out in the
MS.— Ed .

{3}
The draft agenda was discussed at the third, afternoon, sitting on
April 13 (26), 1905.

Variantsof the draft agenda are published in the “Preparatory
Material” section of Vol. 9 of the Fifth Russian edition of the