V. I. Lenin

Draft Resolution for a Conference of Representatives of District Committees and Army Units of Petrograd Together with Representatives of the C.C. and the P.C.

JUNE 10 (23), 1917

Havingstudied the resolutions of the Congress of Soviets
and other organisations, carried today in Izvestia Petrogradskogo Sovieta , and also the C.C. resolution published in Pravda ,
concerning the observance of the ban on demonstrations for three days— —havingstudied these resolutions and discussed the state of
affairs, resolves:

Inview of the fact that the Congress of Soviets and the Executive
Committee of the All-Russia Soviet of Peasants’ Deputies have made their
straightforward statement in their appeal:

“Weknow that concealed forces of the counter-revolution want to take
advantage of your demonstration”

—inview of this it is necessary to admit that we have imagined the
counter-revolution to be much weaker, for we have no knowledge as yet of
what the Congress of Soviets knows; —that,consequently, the struggle against the counter revolution is
an even more urgent item on the order of the day; —thatthe C.C. resolution on abiding by the direct ban on
demonstrations for three days is correct; —thatit is necessary.... {1}

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Notes:
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Here the MS. breaks off.— Ed .