V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905


 

7

DRAFT AGENDA OF THE THIRD PARTY CONGRESS{3}


A) Tactical questions.

1. Armed uprising.

[2. Participation of Social-Democracy in a provisional revolutionary government.]{1}

2. Preparations for open political action by Social-Democracy.

3. Social-Democracy’s attitude to the government’s policy on the eve of the revolution, during the revolution and after it.

4. Attitude to the peasant movement.


B) Attitude to other parties and trends.

5. Attitude to the splinter section of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.

6. Attitude to non-Russian Social-Democratic parties and organisations in Russia.

7. Attitude to the liberals.

8. Attitude to the Socialist-Revolutionaries.


C)
Party organisation.

9. Party Rules.

10. Relations between workers and intellectuals in Party organisations.


D) Internal Party work.

11. Delegates’ reports.

12. Improvement of propaganda and agitation.

[13. May Day.]{2}

14. Election of functionaries.

15. Procedure governing the publication of minutes and entry into office of new institutions.

Motioned on April 13 (26) Printed from the original
First published in 1934 in Lenin Miscellany XXVI

Notes

{1} The text in brewer in square brackets is crossed out in the MS.—Ed.

{2} The text in brevier in square brackets is crossed out in the MS.—Ed.

{3} The draft agenda was discussed at the third, afternoon, sitting on April 13 (26), 1905.

Variants of the draft agenda are published in the “Preparatory Material” section of Vol. 9 of the Fifth Russian edition of the Collected Works (pp. 375–78).

This draft was circulated among the delegates for comments, and then with slight changes in the wording was read out at the Congress as the draft signed by Lenin, M. M. Litvinov (Kuznetsov) and A. A. Bogdanov (Maximov). p. 147

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