| Early January (mid-January) |
Lenin writes critical notes to the first draft programme of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, composed by Plekhanov. |
| January 8 (21) |
Lenin, in a speech at a conference of the Iskra Editorial Board in Munich criticises the first draft programme composed by Plekhanov and introduces his corrections and proposals. |
| January (between 8 and 25) (between January 21 and February 1) |
Lenin composes a new draft programme of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. |
| January 15 (23) |
Lenin’s article “Concerning the State Budget” published in Iskra, No. 15. |
| End of January (first half of February) |
Following Lenin’s instructions, the All-Russian Iskra organisation is founded at a conference of Iskra adherents in Samara. |
| February 1 (14) |
Lenin’s article “Political Agitation and ‘the Class Point of View’" published in Iskra, No. 16. |
| February |
Lenin writes the Preface to his What Is To Be Done? |
| End of February to mid-March (March) |
Lenin writes the critical notes to the second draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P. composed by Plekhanov. |
| March 5 (18) |
Lenin writes for the Belostok Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. the “Report of the Iskra Editorial Board to the Meeting of R.S.D.L.P. Committees” and a draft resolution; he takes part in the conference of the Iskra Editorial Board and gives instructions to the Iskra delegate to the Belostok Conference. |
| Beginning of March (mid March) |
The book What Is To Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement is published in Stuttgart; in this work Lenin elaborated the ideological foundations of the Marxist Party. |
| Beginning of January |
V. I. Lenin writes his critical notes on the first draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P. prepared by G. V. Plekhanov. |
| January 8 (21) |
Lenin criticises Plekhanov’s first draft programme at a meeting of the Editorial Board of Iskra in Munich and proposes amendments to this draft and recommendations. |
| Between January 8 and 25 (January 21 and February 7) |
Lenin prepares a new draft programme of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. |
| February 15 (28) |
Iskra, No. 17, publishes Lenin’s articles, “Signs of Bankruptcy” and “From the Economic Life of Russia”. |
| Not later than February 18 (March 3) |
Lenin makes three amendments to his draft programme of the Party. |
| End of February-first half of March (March) |
Lenin writes his critical notes on the second draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P. prepared by Plekhanov. |
| February-first half of March |
Lenin writes his article, “The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy”, a commentary to the agrarian section of the programme of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| Beginning of March (middle of March) |
Lenin’s book, What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement, which lays the ideological foundations for a Marxist party, comes off the press in Stuttgart. |
| March 5 (18) |
Lenin prepares the report of the Editorial Board of Iskra and draft resolution for the Belostok Conference of the R.S.D.L.P., takes part in the meeting of the Editorial Board, and gives instructions to the Iskra delegate to the Belostok Conference. |
| March 10 (23) |
Lenin’s article, “A Letter to the Zemstvoists”, is published in No. 18 of Iskra. |
| March 30 (April 12) |
V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya leave Munich for London in view of the transfer of Iskra’s publication to that city. In the train to London, Lenin writes his remarks on the draft Party programme prepared by the co-ordinating committee of the Iskra Editorial Board. |
| Beginning of April |
V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya arrive in London. |
| First half of April (second half of April) |
Lenin makes arrangements for the printing of Iskra in London. |
| April |
Lenin writes a letter to the Northern League of the R.S.D.L.P., commenting on the draft programme of the League. |
| May 1 (14) |
Lenin writes a letter to Plekhanov protesting against the impermissible character and tone of Plekhanov’s remarks in editing the article, “The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy”. |
| June 1 (14) |
Iskra, No. 21, publishes the draft programme of the R.S.D.L.P., prepared under Lenin’s guidance by the Editorial Board of Iskra and the magazine Zarya. |
| Between June 12-14 (25-27) |
Lenin arrives in Paris. |
| June 14 (27) |
At a meeting of Russian political emigrants in Paris Lenin reads a paper directed against the Socialist-Revolutionaries. |
| Second half of June-beginning of July (end of June-middle of July) |
V. I. Lenin lives at Longwy (Northern coast of France) together with his mother M. A. Ulyanova and his sister A. I. Yelizarova. |
| End of Junebeginning of July (July) |
Lenin writes his article, “Why the Social-Democrats Must Declare a Determined and Relentless War on the Socialist-Revolutionaries”. |
| July, before July 3 (16) and 9 (22) |
V. I. Lenin writes two letters to I. I. Radchenko in which he outlines a plan for the work of the St. Petersburg organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. in the immediate future. |
| July-August |
Lenin writes his article, “Revolutionary Adventurism”, which was published in Nos. 23 and 24 of Iskra and later as a separate pamphlet. |
| August 2 (15) |
Lenin holds a conference with representatives of the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., the Russian organisation of Iskra, and the Northern League of the R.S.D.L.P., and forms the Iskra-ist nucleus of the Organising Committee for the convocation of the Second Congress of the Party. |
| August 11 (24) |
Lenin writes a letter to the Moscow Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. concerning the committee’s statement of solidarity with the views outlined in the book, What Is to Be Done?, and outlines a plan of action for the committee in the immediate future. |
| August |
Lenin’s article, “The Agrarian Programme of Russian Social-Democracy”, is published in No. 4 of Zarya.
Lenin writes a preface to the second edition of the pamphlet, The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats. |
| September 1 (14) |
Lenin’s editorial, “The Draft of a New Law on Strikes”, is published in Iskra, No. 24. |
| September 3 (16) |
Lenin writes a letter to the editors of Yuzhny Rabochy about the need to unite the local committees in a single all-Russian organisation. |
| September 6 (19) |
On Lenin’s instructions, the Berlin group for the transport of Iskra sends to Russia the matrices for Nos. 22 and 23 of Iskra for printing at the illegal print-shop set up in Baku by V. Z. Ketskhoveli. |
| September |
Lenin writes his pamphlet, A Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks, in which he elaborates Iskra’s principles of organisation of a party of a new type. In conversations with I. V. Babushkin, who has arrived from Russia, Lenin outlines the immediate tasks of the Iskra-ist organisations in Russia. |
| October 15 (28) |
Lenin’s editorial, “Political Struggle and Political Chicanery”, is published in No. 26 of Iskra. |
| October 28-November 7 (November 10-20) |
At Lausanne, Geneva, Berne, and Zurich (Switzerland) Lenin reads his paper criticising the programme and tactics of the Socialist-Revolutionaries. |
| November 1 (14) |
Lenin’s article, “Vulgar Socialism and Narodism as Resurrected by the Socialist-Revolutionaries”, is published in No. 27 of Iskra. |
| November 2-3 (15-16) |
On Lenin’s initiative, the Organising Committee (O.C.) for the convocation of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. is formed at the Pskov Conference. |
| November 16 (29) |
Lenin reads in London his paper criticising the programme and tactics of the Socialist-Revolutionaries. |
| Late November (first half of December) |
Lenin prepares a draft programme for the work of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., informs the Organising Committee of this draft, and outlines the immediate tasks of the Organising Committee. |
| November-December |
Lenin writes “The Basic Thesis Against the Socialist-Revolutionaries” and his article, “On the Tasks of the Social-Democratic Movement”. |
| December 1 (14) |
Lenin’s article, “New Events and Old Questions”, is published in No. 29 of Iskra. |
| December 14 (27) |
Lenin writes a letter to the Iskra-ist F. V. Lengnik in Kiev, suggesting that the struggle against the “economists” be intensified. |
| December |
Lenin edits the Russian translation of Karl Kautsky’s pamphlet, The Social Revolution, published in Geneva in 1903. |
| December 1902-January 1903 |
Lenin writes his work, “On the Subject of Reports by Committees and Groups of the R.S.D.L.P. to the General Party Congress”. |
| Second half of 1902-first half of 1903 |
Lenin conducts classes for studying the programme of the R.S.D.L.P., in a circle for Russian worker-emigrants in London. |