Materials for the IV Extraordinary All-Russia Congress of Soviets

1. Plan of a Speech at a Meeting of the Communist Faction of the Congress{196}

1. Turning point: 25. X. 1917–17. II. 1918 and later.

2. Peace in Brest-Litovsk and now… (Trotsky vs[55] supporters of a revolutionary war)…

3. "Breathing space."

4. Economic hardship… and Belgium?

5. "Betrayal."

Phrase.

2 vs 10 and 200,000 vs 1,000,000.

6. Ukraine and Finland.

7. The point of view of the peasant masses, the petty bourgeoisie, the declassed soldier…

8. Class forces and the "obscene peace."

And the Russian bourgeoisie?

9. "Leftism" of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

10. Even "despair"?

11. Using the "gap," the "contradictions" strategic deployment of forces: Germany – England – Japan – America…

NB: 11 bis: Tilsit. Peace and war, their connection.

12. To wait, to retreat in order to wait.

For what? For whom? For the international revolution.

13. Preparing forces. For the "defense of the Fatherland."

Discipline and discipline (up to draconian measures).

Written on March 12 or 13, 1918.

First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript

2. Plan of a Report on the Ratification of the Peace Treaty[56]

Plan of a Speech at the Congress of Soviets

1. To understand the turning point of history, the change in the balance of classes and social forces.

2. "Independence" of the Russian revolution 23. II. (1917) – 11. II. (1918). (Reasons.)

3. Triumphal march: 25. X. (1917) – 11. II. (1918).

4. Imperialism: an era of severe defeats, retreats. Not the same enemy.

No army.

5. "Extrahistorical" formulation of the question.

The bourgeoisie and its henchmen.

6. Who disintegrated the army?

7. Vinnichenko = Kerensky + Tsereteli + Chernov.

8. Provocation and trap. "Glad to see the German"...

9. Despair and phrase. Phrase and braggadocio: among the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries

[we have < 1/10 (453 and 36 and 8 = 497){197}]… [Sick army] …

10. Compare 1907 and 1918.

11. Peasantry and phrase.

12. "Breathing space." Defense of the Fatherland.

13. 2 and 10; 200,000 and 1,000,000.

14. The Peace of Tilsit and the weak German people (only weak and backward). Peace and war in their connection.

15. We are waiting, retreating, for a different ally: the international socialist proletariat.

Written on March 13 or 14, 1918.

First published in 1929 in Lenin Miscellany XI

Printed from the manuscript

Notes on the Electrification of Industry in Petrograd and Moscow{198}

Electrification of Industry (A) Peter

[In Peter, the Glushkov Commission{199}.]

Peter District:

Water Pferde forces: Krafte[57]

201 According to the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the territory rich in shale went to Estonia.

202 Refers to the power plants "Society of 1886" (MOGES) and "Electrotransmission" (now the station named after R.E. Klasson, a prominent Soviet power engineer, the builder of this station).

(B) Moscow:

Approve not as a private bureau.

Written on March 18, 1918.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXI

Printed from the manuscript

Plans for the article "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government"[58]

1) The new objective situation and the new stage of our revolution.

2) A new orientation.

3) Not only has the acuteness (of the civil war) changed, but this change is such that quantity (of changes) has passed into quality.

Published for the first time, from the manuscript

Outline of a plan:

§§ 1–3…

§ 4. To persuade – to conquer – to administer.

(Which is in the first place.) Not instead of, but together.

5. Accounting and control (α). Increasing productivity (β).

6. The struggle against the bourgeoisie is moving into a stage of organized accounting and control. (Not instead of, but together.)

9. Money. Quid est?[59] (Production; consumption.)

Declaration[60] and holding in banks.

10. To learn socialism from the largest organizers of capitalism, from the trusts.

10 bis: The immediate goal (etwa[61]).

6 hours of physical work + 4 hours of government management.

11. Taylors system. Motion study[62].

11 bis: Payment of the bourgeois intelligentsia:

2000 × 25,000 = 50 million.

Up to 100 million.

|||| 12. Development of Soviet power. What is the socialist character of Soviet power?

|||| 13. By departments (α); personal participation in management (β).

|| 14. From agitator to organizer.

reassessment, transfer of leaders

|| 15. To move the organizer forward.

16. Self-discipline black board industrial courts.

*** To the point. Ed.

|||| 18. Courts, their educational role.

|| 19. Organization of competition.

|| 20. Press vs[63] economics (and not politics).

|| 21. The power of example (of an exemplary community).

Massenspeisung[64]. Agriculture.

|| 22. Cooperatives and their universalization. (The role of trade unions.)

|| 23. Workers as the ruling class.

|| 24. The lengthy nature of the work: beaten to 1/2 death

(you cannot revive it with one shake and order).

|| 25. Practicality and businesslike approach as a slogan.

{cf. 17 |||| 26. One-man management.

27. Rallies vs businesslike discussion and revolutionary spirit.

28. The beginning of the 17th and 20th centuries in Russia.

29. To draw with both hands from abroad.

30. Objection: "is it lengthy?"

8. Workers' control workers' regulation?

Cooperation.

* Why. Ed.

10. Organization of competition.

The power of example. Communist communities.

Agriculture especially. Massenspeisung.

Publicity.

Bourgeois press (politics) and socialist press (economics).

Black board.

To promote organizers…

Comparison of business results.

Cooperation.

Banks.

Labor productivity.

Agricultural communes etc.

The number of those studying military affairs.

11. "Well-organized organization" and dictatorship…

Railway decree.

One-man command.

Unquestioning obedience.

Rallies vs execution.

Confusion: cauldron: "cooked out".

12. Coercion (the state) and the court.

13. Principles of Soviet power and organization.

Universally transition: by departments control (flying squads)

practical training in management…

[to manage to not fall apart]

14. Objections ("errors in assessment").

Who is using whom? ((military organization)).

"Compromising."

Petty-bourgeois mentality, reformism…

Culturalism… etc.

"Practicality and businesslike approach"?

"Length of work with international instability"?

15. Results.

4 bis: Order, rest… Do not steal, do not loaf, account for everything truthfully!

5. The struggle against the bourgeoisie - in a new phase:

(α) organized accounting and control (beyond suppression): declaration of money. Rural bourgeoisie. NB]

+ Nationalization of banks.

6. (β)… attracting the bourgeois intelligentsia to work.

6 bis: Labor conscription for the rich.

7. "Purchase": 2000 × 25 thousand = 50 million (practical organizers, specialists)…

8. Military (generals, officers, etc.)

ad 8: 8 bis. Military organization:

training (specialists)

workers and poor peasants…

9. "Well-organized organization"...

(1) One-man management.

(2) Unquestioning execution.

(3) Railway decree.

9 bis: To move the organizers forward.

10. "Self-discipline."

11. The power of example. Agriculture. Communist communities. Massenspeisung.

12. Organization of competition.

13. The role of the court: intimidation + education.

14. "Practicality and businesslike approach"...

Who is using whom?

15. Petty-bourgeois mentality (or reformism)?

"compromising" "reformism"...

"culturalism"...

"petty-bourgeois mentality"...

16. Length of work... with complete (international) instability?

17. International policy: maneuver (with Germany against Japan and v. v.[65])

17 bis: [ IV. and V. - especially difficult months. ]

18. Soviet organization. Towards universal management

(α) by departments (β) practical management.

1. Peace and the organizational task.

2. The instability of peace. A real guarantee.

3. Bourgeois revolution vs socialist revolution.

4. To persuade – to reconquer – to administer.

5. General slogan (peace, order, rest),

do not steal, do not loaf, account truthfully!

6. The struggle against the bourgeoisie – a new phase

(α) organized accounting and control (β) "purchase" of "stars".

7. Nationalization of banks.

8. Consumer-producer communes and cooperatives.

9. "Specialists" and Soviet organization.

ad 6

10. Universal labor conscription for the rich…

11. Self-discipline. Increasing labor productivity.

12. Piecework pay + Taylor's.

12 bis. Dictatorial power [see § 9]

13. Organization of competition.

Publicity.

To promote organizers.

14. The power of example.

Communist communities. Agriculture.

Massenspeisung.

15. Court, education.

16. Military organization (see 8 bis).

17. Soviet organization (see 18).

18. Objections (14, 15, 16).

19. International politics (17).

20. Internal politics (17 bis).

1) Accounting and control of production and distribution of products.

2) Increasing labor productivity.

In essence, this is unattainable in one fell swoop, also by decree (just as you cannot shake or order to heal a person who has been beaten half to death). A lengthy work.

The role of the court: both intimidation and education.

Taylor system (Motion study etc.)

Power of example: agriculture

Massenspeisung

... "Practicism"...

Workers, as a class of wage slaves, are most capable of revolt, and as the ruling class.

Drawing with both hands the good from abroad: Soviet power + Prussian order of railways + American technology and organization of trusts + American public education etc. etc. + + = Σ[66] = socialism.

I. The struggle with the bourgeoisie passes into the stage of organized accounting and control: declaration of money...

+ Labor conscription

+ product accounting

+ universal unification into cooperatives.

1. Persuade, conquer, govern (not instead of, but in the 1st place).

II. All members of the Soviets (and the Central Executive Committee as well) must be occupied (1) in departments; (2) in practical management.

+ Moving organizers forward.

Democratic and socialist character of the Soviets: quid est? Universal management (difference from the bourgeois parliament).

III. Streamlined organization. Quid est? Written certificates of the composition of responsible collegiums.

Individual command of each executive function.

Unconditional execution of orders.

Re-evaluation of leaders. Agitator vs. organizer.

IV. Self-discipline of the workers.

Increasing labor productivity.

Page of V. I. Lenin's manuscript "Plans for the article 'The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government'." - 1918 (Reduced)

Drawing board. Industrial courts.

Payment of the bourgeois intelligentsia

×

25000

____

50 million

V. Organization of competition.

1–4. International situation and main tasks of the socialist revolution.

1–4

(pp. 1–9[67]).

5. General slogan of the moment. 5

(pp. 9–12).

6–7. New phase of the struggle against the bourgeoisie. 6. 7. 9. 10 (pp. 12–25).

8. Significance of the struggle for universal accounting and control.

(Production and distribution.) 8 (pp. 25–30).

9. Increasing labor productivity. 11. 12

(pp. 30–34).

10. Organization of competition. 13. 14. 15

(pp. 34–40).

11. "Streamlined organization" and dictatorship. 12 bis. 15

(pp. 40–55).

Military organization. 16

Principles of Soviet organization. 17

Objections. 18

Development of the Soviet organization.

(pp. 56–62).

Conclusion:

pp. 62—

Results (summary).

Written in the second half of March – first half of April 1918.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript

Plan of a report on the fight against famine at a joint session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and trade unions[68]

Imperialist war and [ Meat and butter rationed international causes of famine – — — – — – — in all countries, both warring and neutral.

The bourgeoisie everywhere arranges itself "comfortably" the people are starving (in Germany and Austria especially, not to mention the ruined and defeated countries).

Grain monopoly… [ since ~ year? ]

||| Kerensky doubles grain prices (August 1917)

{ Criticism of this by the entire democratic and socialist press. }

* Zirka – approximately, about. Ed.

Written in June, no later than 4, 1918.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript