| January 1 (14) | Lenin’s article, “Moscow Zubatovists in St. Petersburg”, is published in No. 31 of Iskra. |
| January 15 (28) | Lenin’s article, “Announcement of the Formation of an Organising Committee”, is published in No. 32 of Iskra. |
| End of January (beginning of February) | Lenin writes his articles, “Concerning the Statement of the Bund” and “On the Manifesto of the Armenian Social-Democrats”. Both articles are published in No. 33 of Iskra. |
| January | Lenin writes his work, “Some Reflections on the Letter from 7 Ts. 6 F.” (7 Ts. 6 F.—pseudonym of F. V. Lengnik), criticising the leaders of the local Party committees for inactivity in organising political work among the masses. |
| February 10-13 (23-26) | In the Higher Russian School of Social Sciences in Paris Lenin delivers four lectures on the subject “Marxist Views on the Agrarian Question in Europe and in Russia”. |
| February 15 (28) | Lenin’s article, “Does the Jewish Proletariat Need an ‘Independent Political Party’?” directed against the bourgeois nationalism of the Bund, is published in No. 34 of Iskra. |
| February 18-21 (March 3-6) | At a meeting of Russian political emigrants in Paris, Lenin reads a paper on the agrarian programme of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Social-Democrats. |
| February 24 (March 9) | Lenin returns from Paris to London. |
| March 1 (14) | Lenin’s article, “The Autocracy Is Wavering....”, is published in No. 35 of Iskra. |
| March 5 (18) | Lenin delivers a speech on the Paris Commune at a workers’ meeting in Whitechapel (a working-class district in London). |
| March | Lenin writes his pamphlet, To the Rural Poor. An Explanation for the Peasants of What the Social-Democrats Want. |
| April 1 (14) | Lenin’s article, “Mr. Struve Exposed by His Colleague”, is published in No. 37 of Iskra. |
| April 15 (28) | Lenin’s article, “Les Beaux Esprits Se Rencontrent, (Which May Be Interpreted Roughly as: Birds of a Feather Flock Together)”, directed against the Socialist-Revolutionaries, is published in No. 38 of Iskra. |
| End of April (beginning of May) | Lenin and Krupskaya move from London to Geneva in connection with the transfer of Iskra’s publication to that city. |
| May | Lenin’s pamphlet, To the Rural Poor, comes off the press in Geneva. |
| June | At Berne Lenin delivers several lectures on the agrarian question. |
| June-first half of July |
Lenin conducts preparations for the Second Congress of the Party. He drafts the standing orders and agenda of the Congress, prepares the draft Rules of the Party, and acquaints the members of the Iskra Editorial Board and delegates to the Congress with this draft. Lenin attends meetings of Congress delegates, makes the acquaintance of the delegates, and speaks on the national question at a delegates’ meeting. Lenin writes an outline of the report to the Congress on the activities of the Iskra organisation. Lenin prepares draft resolutions for the Congress: on demonstrations, on the place of the Bund in the Party, on the attitude towards the student youth, on Party literature, and drafts of minor resolutions (on the economic struggle, on May Day, on the International Congress, on terrorism, on propaganda, and on the distribution of forces). Lenin writes his article, “Reply to Criticism of Our Draft Programme”, substantiating the agrarian section of the Party programme. The article is published in the pamphlet, On the Agrarian Programme of X, distributed among the delegates to the Congress in lieu of a report on the agrarian question. |
| July 15 (28) | Lenin’s editorial, “The National Question in Our Programme”, is published in No. 44 of Iskra. |
| July 17 (30)-August 10 (23) | The Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. meets in Brussels and London. Lenin takes a leading part in the work of the Congress; he keeps a diary of the Congress sessions. |
| July 17 (30) | At the first session of the Congress in Brussels, Lenin is elected Vice-Chairman, member of the Presidium and member of the Credentials Committee of the Congress. |
| July 17-18 (30-31) | Lenin works on the Credentials Committee of the Congress. |
| July 18 (31) |
Lenin speaks twice at the second session of the Congress in support of the agenda recommended by him. Lenin speaks at the third session of the Congress on the incorrect actions of the Organising Committee (on the “incident with the O.C.”) and on the question of the attendance of the Polish Social-Democrats at the Congress. |
| July 20 (August 2) | Lenin speaks at the sixth session of the Congress on the place of the Bund in the R.S.D.L.P., criticising the Bund’s nationalism in questions of organisation. |
| July 21 (August 3) | Lenin is elected to the Programme Committee at the eighth session of the Congress. |
| Between July 21 and 29 (August 3 and 11) | Lenin works in the Programme Committee of the Congress. |
| July 22 (August 4) | Lenin speeks on the Party Programme at the ninth session of the Congress. |
| Between July 24 and 29 (August 6 and 11) | Lenin and the delegates of the Second Congress move from Brussels to London. |
| July 29 (August 11) |
At the fourteenth session of the Congress Lenin delivers the report on the Party Rules. At the fifteenth session of the Congress, Lenin is elected to the Committee for Editing the Rules. |
| Between July 29 and August 2 (August 11 and 15) | Lenin works in the Committee for Editing the Rules. |
| July 31 (August 13) | Lenin speaks at the nineteenth session of the Congress, in the discussion on the agrarian programme of the Party. |
| August 1 (14) | Lenin delivers three speeches at the twentieth and twenty-first sessions of the Congress, in the discussion on the agrarian programme. |
| August 2 (15) | Lenin speaks at the twenty-second and twentythird sessions of the Congress, in support of his proposed formulation of §1 of the Rules about membership in the Party. |
| August 2 or 3 (15 or 16) | Lenin attends the meeting of the Iskra organisation at which a split takes place among the Iskra-ists over the question of candidates for election to the Central Committee. |
| August 4 (17) | Lenin speaks at the twenty-fifth session of the Congress, on the composition of the Party Council. |
| August 4 and 5 (17 and 18) | Lenin speaks three times at the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh sessions of the Congress, in the discussion on §12 of the Party Rules, on the question of co-optation to the Central Committee and to the editorial board of the Central Organ of the Party. |
| August 5 (18) | Lenin attends a private meeting of delegates of the majority, at which the question of the composition of the Central Committee is discussed. |
| Between August 5 and 10 (18 and 23) | Lenin prepares draft resolutions: on the withdrawal of the Bund from the R.S.D.L.P., on separate groups, on the army, and on the peasantry (these resolutions were not submitted to the Congress). |
| August 7 (20) |
Lenin speaks at the thirty-first session of the Congress on the question of elections to the Editorial Board of Iskra, the Central Organ of the Party. Lenin is elected by secret ballot to the Editorial Board of Iskra; speaks on elections to the Central Committee. |
| August 9 or 10 (22 or 23) | Lenin prepares a draft resolution on the publication of a periodical for members of religious sects. |
| August 10 (23) | Lenin speaks at the thirty-seventh session of the Congress, against Potresov’s resolution on the attitude towards the liberals, and delivers his speech on the attitude towards the student youth. |
| August 11 (24) | Lenin and other Bolshevik delegates of the Congress pay homage to the memory of Karl Marx at the latter’s grave in Highgate Cemetery. |
| After August 11 (24) | After the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin returns from London to Geneva. |
| August 15 (28) | Lenin’s articles, “An Era of Reforms”, concerning the law on factory stewards, and “The Latest Word in Bundist Nationalism”, are published in No. 46 of Iskra. |
| Early part of September | Lenin writes his “Account of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P”. |
| September 12-15 (25-28) | Lenin and Plekhanov negotiate with Dan concerning terms of agreement with the minority. The negotiations fail. |
| September 21 (October 4) | Lenin, with Plekhanov and Lengnik, negotiates with Martov, Axelrod, Potresov, and Zasulich concerning agreement. The negotiations fail. |
| September | Lenin’s article “The Tasks of the Revolutionary Youth” is published in No. 2-3 of the newspaper Student. |
| October 1 (14) | Lenin’s article “Maximum Brazenness and Minimum Logic” is published in No. 49 of Iskra. |
| October 13-17 (26-30) | Lenin attends the Second Congress of the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy Abroad, held in Geneva. |
| October 14 (27) | At the second sitting, of the League Congress, Lenin makes the report on the Second Party Congress. |
| October 15 (28) | At the third sitting of the League Congress, Lenin protests against the unworthy methods of struggle employed by Martov, and with the other majority adherents withdraws from the sitting. |
| October 16 (29) | At the fourth sitting of the League Congress, Lenin refuses to participate in or reply to the debate on the report on the Second Party Congress. |
| October 19 (November 1) | Lenin resigns from the editorial board of Iskra in order to entrench himself in the Central Committee and strike at the opportunists from that position. |
| October 22 (November 4) | Lenin’s article “The Position of the Bund in the Party” is published in No. 51 of Iskra. |
| October 24 or 25 (November 6 or 7) | Lenin attends a meeting of the Geneva Bolshevik group, which condemns Plekhanov’s defection to the Mensheviks. |
| November 5 (18) | Lenin finishes and sends Plekhanov his article “The Narodnik-Like Bourgeoisie and Distraught Narodism”, published in Iskra, No. 54 (December 1, 1903). |
| November 6-8 (19-21) | Lenin is co-opted to the Central Committee. |
| November 12 (25) | Lenin attends a Central Committee meeting in Geneva, which on his proposal draws up an ultimatum to the Mensheviks regarding terms for peace in the Party. |
| November 14 (27) | Lenin proposes in the Central Committee a statement denouncing Plekhanov’s co-optation of the Menshevik ex-editors to the Iskra editorial board. |
| November 16 (29) | Lenin is delegated by the Central Committee to the Party Council. |
| Between November 25 and 29 (December 8 and 12) | Lenin writes his open letter to the editors of the Menshevik Iskra—“Why I Resigned from the Iskra Editorial Board”, which is published in leaflet form and sent to Russia. |
| November 27 (December 10) | In a letter to the Central Committee members in Russia Lenin calls for the convening of the Third Party Congress. |
| December 9 (22) | Lenin protests against a Central Committee statement circulated to the committees and declaring that peace has been made with the Mensheviks. |
| December 17 (30) | In a letter to the Central Committee Lenin demands that its members should state their attitude on the question of convening a Party congress. |
| Before December 31 (January 13 1904) | Lenin writes a Preface and Postscript to his pamphlet A Letter to a Comrade on Our Organisational Tasks. |
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