# OUTLINE OF THE REPORT ON THE 1905 REVOLUTION

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OUTLINE OF THE REPORT ON THE 1905 REVOLUTION**

1)) January 22 (January 9) = the beginning of the revolution. War accelerated it.

2) A brief summary of events from January 22 onward.

3)) The most significant changes.

* - done. Ed.

** “Report on the 1905 Revolution” see Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 30, pp. 306–328. Ed.

OUTLINE OF THE REPORT ON THE 1905 REVOLUTION

(Struve, January 7: There is no revolutionary people, 5 9. Trotsky.)
Gapon – a priest-turned-revolutionary.

Petition to the Tsar-Father. Revolution.

Direct mass uprising against the head of state.

Revolutionaries: a small group (several hundred people) — leaders of the proletariat and, through them, leaders of the revolution.

Trotsky 1 2 3 at the end

4) Strikes (the first revolution in world history, best understood and studied through the statistics of strikes).

5) 45... (1895–1904) 80(1903)
2800(1905) - 400 (January 1905)
(in one month, as many as in ten years before the revolution).

6) Waves of strikes: vanguard and rearguard
Metalworkers and laggards
North and northwest = vanguard...

7) Economic and political strikes.

8) Spring 1905 — the beginning of the peasant movement... (the content of the bourgeois revolution).

9) June 28 (15) 1905 — the mutiny on the “Potemkin”...

10) Three waves: the wave of strikes—first, leading, self-organized. The peasant movement—almost incomparable (significantly weaker)
(unfortunately, only 1/15, 2,000 burned out of 30,000).

11) Boycott of the August Duma... parliamentarism... Military uprisings (cf. 1825 vs. 1905).

12) Climactic point: October and December 1905: Rallies at the university... 74.

Trotsky. Kharkov, October 23, 1905

October: the first large-scale strike of political and revolutionary character
throughout the country.
(+ 69. Trotsky. Railway workers, postal officials.)
Manifesto of October 30 (17), 1905.

XII: Moscow uprising ... 214 Trotsky: Gorky.
9 days: 2 2 1 Trotsky (Max Weber on the role of the “Leninist Group”) ...
219: Trotsky. Cannon of October 25, 1905 in Moscow.
222: Moscow 1905. Berlin 1848.
(“Eight-hour workday and weapons.” 164 Trotsky.)

Maximum number of political strikers... eight-hour workday. Retreat of the bourgeoisie. Lockouts.

Maximum level of the peasant movement...

Maximum level of military uprisings...
185 - 6 (Trotsky): workers and peasants in military rebellion.

Councils of Workers’ Deputies...

13) Victory of the counterrevolution (December 1905)...

Loan of 2 billion francs: spring 1906! (NB)

14) Attempts to resume the offensive.

I Duma (spring 1906)... (Peasant Party + Social Democrats). Wave of strikes
and the last wave of the peasant movement.

II Duma (spring 1907)... No peasant movement
weak wave of strikes.

15) State coup of June 3 (16), 1907. Beginning of the counterrevolutionary era
until 1912.

16) Significance: (.) Russia is being renewed (Leo Tolstoy
regrets)*

* See “On the Election Campaign and Electoral Platform,” Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 20, p. 362.
Ed.

OUTLINE OF THE REPORT ON THE 1905 REVOLUTION

(.) Asia is rebelling (Turkey, Persia, China)
(.) European labor movement: Austria.
(.) Prototype and prologue to the coming European revolution.
proletarian in a certain sense
Prototype and prologue in four respects:
(.) concrete representation of growing mass activity.

Mass uprising against ((Strikes)) of state power
(.) Role of the mass strike
NB “Hidden Socialism” (Engels)*
Best exposition in German: Rosa Luxemburg (in connection with Western European peculiarities of struggle)...

Rosa Luxemburg: “Mass Strike, Party, and Trade Unions” (Hamburg, 1906)
NB Polish students:
Katscher, 245
203 (.) Involvement of soldiers, army in the struggle.
||| (.) Civil war. (Cf. Kautsky in “Social Revolution” (1902):

“The Coming Revolution”... “will resemble less a sudden uprising
against authorities and more a civil war...” p. 48).

* Refers to F. Engels’s letter to F. Sorge dated February 22, 1888. See K. Marx and F. Engels. Collected Works, vol. XXVIII, 1940, pp. 16–17. Ed.

Additions to the outline*
About 70 million desyatins of large landholdings
About 70 » » poorest peasants
+ Spread of Social Democratic literature
+ National movements
+ Jewish pogroms of October 1905: 100 cities, 4,000 killed, 10,000 maimed
1 1 4, Trotsky

Written earlier on January 9 (22)

First published in 1934.

In Lenin Collection XXVI

Printed from manuscript

Translated from German