I. Before the new harvest – a critical period of the revolution.  
The highest point of the crisis.

II. The “military situation” has taken shape:  
Czechoslovaks (15 million){209} +  
White Guards  
landlords  
capitalists  
Murman  
Alexeyev [in Tikhoretskaya]  
Baku (Dashnaks + British)  
Turkestan (British).

III. The “encirclement” of the Anglo-French imperialists. The “ring”. They bribed and bought the bourgeoisie, in alliance with it.

IV. Food supplies. Cut off from grain.

V. “Kulak revolts”.  
The class character is clearer than clear:  
the proletariat + the rural poor  
versus[36] the kulaks and the bourgeoisie  
vacillations of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

VI. War-weariness  
(Simbirsk: a peasant province)  
+ betrayals by commanders (as happened in the Great French Revolution).

VII. But meanwhile the military situation decides, the war (civil war) decides.  
All forces to the war!  
All forces against the Czechoslovaks.  
Treachery and betrayal by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

VIII. What is the struggle about? What is at stake?  
a) Restoration of the power of the landlords and capitalists.  
b) Restoration of the front, to drag into an imperialist war.  
Czechoslovak front (15 million rubles)  
Murman  
Alexeyev  
Baku  
a  
Turkestan.  
b  
Class situation: kulak revolts; a decisive battle with the bourgeoisie. The poor and the working people versus the bourgeoisie.  
The proletariat and the poor: who will win over.  
… Food supplies…  
c  
War-weariness: betrayals by commanders; the surrender of Simbirsk (similar examples happened in the Great French Revolution: no ground for hopelessness),  
d  
The military situation: the military outcome decides.  
e  
Restore the front: subordination of the whole country to the imperialists.  
α) Power of the landlords and capitalists.  
β) Forcibly drag into an imperialist war and imperialist slavery.

Written in the second half of July, not later than 29, 1918.

First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript.