1. A strange formulation of the question, at first glance: the realization of a provisional revolutionary government is not so close after all. The question is imposed upon us by literary polemics. Martynov and his Understanding prior to January 9, 1905 ("Two Dictatorships," pp. 10–11).

The tail-endism of this Understanding.

The importance of clarity of the aims of Social-Democracy.

2. Plekhanov's incorrect portrayal of the beginning of the dispute (No. 96): obscures Martynovism{142}.

3. The general formulation of the question: socialist or democratic dictatorship? The absurdity of substituting the former.

The inevitability of the latter.

4. Plekhanov's arguments in No. 96.

See special sheets pp. 1–6[134].

Then.

a) Two forces: revolution and counter-revolution. Their armed struggle, the changing fortunes of the struggle, the inevitability of the struggle both from below and from above.

b) Engels in 1849, quotes from the description of the Reichsverfassungskampagne{143}.

c) The resolution and its brief motivation.