V. I.

Lenin

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

April 12 (25)-April 27 (May 10), 1905

27

Draft Resolution on the Events in the Caucasus [1]

1. Whereas the specific social and political conditions in the
Caucasus have favoured the creation there of the most militant
organisations of our Party;

2. Whereas the revolutionary mood of the majority of the population in the
Caucasus, both in the towns and in the villages, has reached the stage of a
people’s uprising. against the autocracy;

3. Whereas the autocratic government has begun to send troops and artillery to
Guria for the ruthless destruction of all the important seats of rebellion;
and

4. Whereas a victory of the autocracy over the popular uprising in the Caucasus,
which would be rendered easier by the non-Russian composition of the
population, would most grievously affect the success of the uprising
throughout Russia;— Therefore,the Third Congress of the Russian
Social-Democratic Labour Party, on behalf of the class-conscious
proletariat of Russia, sends ardent greetings to the heroic proletariat and peasantry of the Caucasus
and instructs the Central Committee and the local Party committees to take the
most energetic measures towards promulgating information on the state of affairs
in the Caucasus as widely as possible by means of pamphlets, meetings, workers’
rallies, study circle talks, etc., as well as measures towards rendering timely
support to the Caucasus by armed force.

| Written on April 26 (May 9), 1905 | |