V. I. Lenin

Plan for a Lecture “Revolutionary Upsurge of the Russian Proletariat” {1}

1. The Lena
events {2} and May Day in Russia. Mass strikes and their role.

2. Revolutionary upsurge quite natural; its forerunners and prospects.

3. Importance of the mass strike in modern revolutions. Experience of 1905.

4. Liberalism and democracy confronted by another revolution.

5. Why did the Cadets declare war on “revolutionary sentiments” and
condemn the idea of “the need for another revolution in Russia”?

6. A new situation in the current revolutionary upsurge. Political parties,
Third Duma, elections. The peasantry and the new democratic
intelligentsia.

7. “Freedom of coalition” and slogans in a popular revolution: struggle
for a republic, an 8-hour working day, confiscation of all landed estates.