Lenin declines to speak in defense of changing the party's name due to lack of time, but on this question refers to a newly written pamphlet by him, "The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution,"[74] which will serve as material for discussion in the localities.

A few words about the conference.

There was little time, much work. The conditions in which our party finds itself are difficult. The defensist parties are large, but the proletarian masses relate negatively to defensism and to the imperialist war. Our resolutions are not adapted for the broad masses, but they will unite the activities of our agitators and propagandists, and readers will find guidance for their work. We must speak before millions; we must draw new forces from the mass, we must demand more developed conscious workers who would explain our theses in accordance with the level of the masses. We will direct our efforts toward achieving a more popular exposition of our resolutions in our pamphlets, and we hope that comrades in the localities will do the same. The proletariat will find in our resolutions guiding material for the movement toward the second stage of our revolution.

(The conference ended with the singing of the Internationale)

First published in 1935 in the book "The Petrograd General City and All-Russian Conferences of the RSDLP(b) in April 1917"

Printed according to the manuscript copy of the protocol record