Partisan Combat Actions
Партизанские боевые выступления
Date: 1906
Source: PSS vol 12
Translated by: AI (Claude)

Taking into consideration:

1) that since the December uprising almost nowhere in Russia has there been a complete cessation of military operations, which are now expressed on the part of the revolutionary people in separate partisan attacks on the enemy;

2) that such partisan actions, inevitable in the presence of two hostile armed forces and with the rampage of temporarily triumphant military repression, at the same time serve to disorganize the enemy and prepare for future open and mass armed actions;

3) that such actions are also necessary for the combat education and military training of our combat squads, which during the December uprising in many localities proved to be practically unprepared for this new undertaking;

We recognize and propose that the congress recognize:

1) that the party must recognize partisan combat actions by squads entering into it or adhering to it as principally permissible and expedient in the present period;

2) that partisan combat actions must be adapted in their character to the task of educating cadres of leaders of the working masses during the uprising and developing experience in offensive and surprise military operations;

3) that the chief immediate task of such actions should be recognized as the destruction of the governmental, police, and military apparatus and merciless struggle against actively Black Hundred organizations resorting to violence against the population and its intimidation;

4) that combat actions for the seizure of monetary means belonging to the enemy, that is, the autocratic government, and for the conversion of these means to the needs of the uprising are also permissible, with serious attention being paid to ensuring that the interests of the population are disturbed as little as possible;

5) that partisan combat actions must be carried out under the control of the party and in such a way that the forces of the proletariat are not wasted in vain and that the conditions of the workers' movement in the given locality and the mood of the broad masses are taken into account.