V. I.

Lenin

Resolution of the Executive Commission of the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.

Inview of the Special reports received from Sveaborg [1] concerning the extremely acute situation in this town and
the possibility of an immediate outbreak, the Executive
Commission of the St. Petersburg Committee of the
R.S.D.L.P. resolves:

1)to send immediately to Sveaborg a delegation consisting of
comrades NNNN; 2)to instruct this delegation to take all measures required for a thorough
examination of the situation on the spot; 3)to instruct it to influence local members of the Party, revolutionaries and
the population so as to secure a postponement of action, provided this is
possible without excessive sacrifice on the part of the population through
arrests by the government of persons already marked out for that purpose; 4)to instruct the delegation, in case it is quite impossible to stop an
outbreak, to take the most active part in leading the movement, i. e., to
help the masses who have joined the struggle to organise independently, to
disarm and wipe out the reaction, to undertake decisive offensive action
after suitable preparation, and to come forward with correct and really
revolutionary slogans, capable of rallying the whole people.