| December 22 (January 4) | Issue No. 1 of the newspaper Vperyod, edited by Lenin, appears in Geneva. The issue contains his articles: “The Autocracy and the Proletariat” (editorial), “Good Demonstrations of Proletarians and Poor Arguments of Certain Intellectuals”, “Time to Call a Halt!”, and others. Lenin writes the pamphlet “Statement and Documents on the Break of the Central Institutions with the Party.” |
| December 24 (January 6) |
In “A Letter to a Comrade in Russia” Lenin sharply criticises the attitude of the Menshevik newspaper Iskra towards bourgeois democracy. Lenin reads a paper at the Russian colony of political emigrants in Geneva on the question of working-class and bourgeois democracy. |
| December 28 (January 10) | In a letter to A. A. Bogdanov, a member of the Bureau of Committees of the Majority, Lenin urges a definite and complete break with the Mensheviks. |
| January 1 (14) | Lenin's articles “The Fall of Port Arthur” (editorial) and “Fine Words Butter No Parsnips” are published in Vperyod, No. 2. |
| January 5 (18) | In a letter to the Zurich group of Bolsheviks Lenin calls for a definite break with the Mensheviks and the immediate convocation of the Third Party Congress. |
| January 6 (19) | In a letter to Y. D. Stasova and to the other comrades in prison in Moscow Lenin offers advice on the conduct of Social-Democrats in the tsarist law court. |
| Between January 10 and 17 (23 and 30) | Lenin writes the series of articles entitled “Revolutionary Days” concerning the events of January 9 in St. Petersburg. |
| January 11 (24) | Vperyod, No. 3, publishes the following articles by Lenin: “Working-Class and Bourgeois Democracy” (editorial), “From Narodism to Marxism”, “Revolution in Russia”, “The St. Petersburg Strike”, and “Our Tartuffes”. |
| January 12 (25) | Lenin writes the article “The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia” calling for the preparation of the armed uprising. The article is published as an editorial in Vperyod, No. 4, for January 31 (18). |
| January, after the 13th (26th) | Lenin addresses a meeting of Bolsheviks in Geneva on the events of January 9. |
| January 18 (31) | Vperyod, No. 4, publishes the following articles by Lenin under the heading “Revolutionary Days”: “What Is Happening in Russia?”, “The First Steps”, “Father Gapon”, “The Plan of the St. Petersburg Battle”, “’Our Father the Tsar’ and the Barricades”. |
| January 19 (February 1) | Lenin writes the article “The Tsarist Peace”. |
| January 21 (February 3) | In a letter to Hermann Greulich, the Swiss Social-Democrat, Lenin outlines in brief the history of the split in the R.S.D.L.P. |
| January 25 (February 7) |
Lenin writes to August Bebel rejecting his proposal for a court of arbitration between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Vperyod, No. 5, publishes Lenin’s articles “St. Petersburg After January 9”, “Trepov in the Saddle”, and others. In Geneva Lenin attends a lecture by M. S. Olminsky on the subject “A Variety of Opportunism” in which Menshevism is criticised. |
| February 1 (14) | Lenin’s article “Two Tactics” is published as an editorial in Vperyod, No. 6. |
| February 2 (15) | In a letter to S. I. Gusev in St. Petersburg Lenin urges that contacts be strengthened and extended between the Editorial Board of Vperyod and the workers’ study circles, and especially with the youth. |
| February 8 (21) | Lenin’s articles “A Militant Agreement for the Uprising” (editorial) and “Should We Organise the Revolution?” are published in Vperyod, No. 7. |
| February 12 (25) | In a letter to S. I. Gusev, Lenin insists on the preservation of complete independence by the Bureau of Committees of the Majority in preparing and convening the Third Congress of the Party. |
| February 15 (28) |
Lenin writes his “Letter to the Organisations in Russia” pressing for the immediate preparation of the Third Congress. Lenin’s article “The Convening of the Third Party Congress” (editorial) is published in Vperyod, No. 8. |
| February, prior to the 20th (March 5) | Lenin draws up the questionnaire for reports by local Party organisations for the Third Congress. |
| February 20 (March 5) | Lenin addresses a meeting of the Organising Section of the Bolshevik Club in Geneva following a report by A. M. Essen (Stepanov) on the work among the non-proletarian sections of the population (students, soldiers and peasants). |
| February 23 (March 8) | Lenin’s articles “New Tasks and New Forces” (editorial) and “Osvobozhdeniye-ists and New-Iskrists, Monarchists and Girondists” are published in Vperyod, No. 9. |
| February 28 (March 13) | Lenin informs the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. of the receipt of money from the English Labour Representation Committee for the relief of the victims of January 9, 1905. |
| February | Lenin writes a general plan of the decisions and draft resolutions for the Third Congress of the Party. |
| March 2 (15) | Vperyod, No. 10, publishes Lenin’s articles “The Proletariat and the Bourgeois Democrats” and “Whom Are They Trying to Fool?” |
| March 3 (16) | In a letter to S. I. Gusev in St. Petersburg Lenin writes that the conference of socialist parties arranged by G. A. Gapon has been postponed and urges the need for A. A. Bogdanov’s immediate departure for Switzerland. |
| March 5 (18) | Lenin delivers a lecture on the Paris Commune at a meeting of the Russian colony of political emigrants in Geneva. |
| March, prior to the 10th (23rd) | Lenin edits the Russian translation of a chapter from the Memoirs of General Cluseret and writes a short biography of the author. The translation was published in the newspaper Vperyod, No. 11, under the title “Street Fighting. (The Advice of a General of the Commune)”. |
| March 10 (23) | Lenin’s articles “The Proletariat and the Peasantry” (editorial) and “The First Step” are published in Vperyod, No. 11. |
| March 12 (25) | Lenin writes a letter to the Odessa Committee concerning the nomination of delegates to the Third Congress of the Party. |
| March 16 (29) | Lenin writes his article “What the Bonapartists Are Up To”. It was published as a reprint from Vperyod, No. 13. |
| March 20 (April 2) |
Lenin attends a conference of the Russian socialist organisations held in Geneva. Upon convincing himself of its opportunist character, Lenin walks out. Lenin is elected delegate to the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. from the Odessa Party organisation. |
| March 23 (April 5) | Lenin’s articles “European Capital and the Autocracy” (editorial), “The Second Step”, and the beginning of the article “Social-Democracy and the Provisional Revolutionary Government” are published in Vperyod, No. 13. |
| March 30 (April 12) | Lenin’s article “The Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry” is published in Vperyod, No. 14. The article was also issued in pamphlet form by the Caucasian League Committee in Russian, Georgian, and Armenian. |
| March-April | Lenin writes the plan of his article “A Revolution of the 1789 or the 1848 Type?” |
| April 5 (18) | Lenin takes part in the Geneva meeting of the Organising Committee for Convening the Third Congress of the Party. |
| April 6 (19) | Lenin authorises G. D. Leiteizen, a member of the staff of Vperyod, to address the Congress of the Socialist Party of France with greetings on behalf of the Editorial Board of Vperyod. |
| April 7 (20) | Lenin’s articles “The Agrarian Programme of the Liberals” (editorial), “Marx on the American ‘General Redistribution’”, and others are published in Vperyod, No. 15. |
| April 10 (23) | Lenin, on behalf of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., writes the “Open Letter to Comrade Plekhanov, Chairman of the Council of the R.S.D.L.P.”. The letter was published in Vperyod, No. 16. |
| April not later than 11 (24) | Lenin drafts a resolution of the Organising Committee on representation of various organisations at the Congress and a resolution of the O.C. on the constitution of the Congress. |
| April 11 (24) | Lenin takes part in the meeting of the Organising Committee for Convening the Third Congress of the Party and drafts the resolution of the Organising Committee on the validity of the Congress. |
| April, prior to the 12th (25th) |
Lenin writes the leaflet “The First of May” published by the Bureau of Committees of the Majority and the Editorial Board of Vperyod. Lenin receives mandates from the Kursk and Odessa committees of the Party to the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin leaves Geneva for London to attend the Third Congress of the Party. Lenin draws up the agenda for the Third Congress, holds conferences with members of the Bureau of Committees of the Majority and with members of the Editorial Board of Vperyod, and has talks with delegates on questions concerning the work of the forthcoming Congress. |
| April 12-27 (April 25-May 10) |
Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin directs the work of the Congress. He keeps the Congress chairman’s diary. |
| April 12 (25) | Opening of the Congress. Lenin is elected to the chair. |
| April 13 (26) | Lenin makes a speech on the question of the validity of the Congress. He is elected to the Resolutions Drafting Committee. |
| April 14 (27) |
Lenin edits A. V. Lunacharsky’s report on the armed uprising. Lenin speaks at the fourth and fifth sessions of the Congress on the report of the Credentials Committee. |
| April 15 (28) | Lenin speaks at the sixth session of the Congress on the question of the armed uprising. |
| April 16 (29) | Lenin makes a speech at the eighth session of the Congress on the armed uprising and edits the resolution on this question. |
| April 17 (30) | Lenin’s article “The Constitutional MarketPlace” is published in Vperyod, No. 16. It was published in leaflet form by the Baku Bolshevik Committee on May 15 (28). |
| April 18 (May 1) |
Lenin makes a speech at the tenth session of the Congress on the question of the attitude towards the government’s tactics on the eve of the revolution. At the eleventh session of the Congress Lenin makes the report, “On the Participation of the Social-Democrats in a Provisional Revolutionary Government”, and moves a draft resolution on this question. |
| April 19 (May 2) |
Lenin makes a speech at the twelfth session of the Congress on the amendments to the resolution on the provisional revolutionary government. At the thirteenth session of the Congress Lenin makes the report on the “Resolution on the Support of the Peasant Movement”. Lenin’s resolution on “Open Political Action by the R.S.D.L.P.” is adopted at the thirteenth session of the Congress. |
| April 20 (May 3) |
Lenin’s resolution “On the Support of the Peasant Movement” is debated and adopted at the fourteenth and fifteenth sessions of the Congress. Lenin makes a speech at the fifteenth session of the Congress on the relations between workers and intellectuals within the Social-Democratic organisations. |
| April 21 (May 4) |
Lenin speaks during the discussion of the Party Rules at the sixteenth and seventeenth sessions of the Congress. The Congress at its sixteenth session adopts Clause 1 of the Rules as formulated by Lenin. |
| April 22 (May 5) | Lenin offers to the nineteenth session of the Congress the “Draft Resolution on the Relations Between Workers and Intellectuals Within the Social-Democratic Organisations” and takes the floor three times on this question. |
| April 22 and 23 (May 5 and 6) | Lenin submits the resolution “On the Breakaway Section of the Party” and speaks in the discussion of this question at the nineteenth and twentieth sessions of the Congress. |
| April 23 (May 6) | Lenin makes a speech at the twenty-first session of the Congress on a practical agreement with the Socialists-Revolutionaries. |
| April 25 (May 8) | Lenin speaks at the twenty-second session of the Congress on the question of propaganda and agitation. |
| April 26 (May 9) | Lenin makes a speech at the twenty-third session of the Congress on the report on the work of the Central Committee. |
| April 27 (May 10) |
Lenin is elected to the Central Committee of the Party. Lenin’s resolution on the standing order for the publication of the Congress proceedings is adopted at the twenty-third session. |
| April, after the 27th (May 10th) |
Lenin’s resolution on the events in the Caucasus is adopted at the twenty-fifth session of the Congress. Lenin closes the Third Congress of the Party. Lenin chairs the first meeting of the Central Committee elected by the Third Congress of the Party. Lenin outlines the plan for the allocation of functions among the members of the Central Committee for carrying on work abroad and in Russia. Lenin draws up the password, the code, and the assumed names to be used in communication between members of the Central Committee, as well as the technique of organisation and financing of Party work. The C.C. appoints Lenin Editor-in-Chief of the Party’s Central Organ, Proletary, and representative of the C.C. abroad. Lenin visits Karl Marx’s grave at Highgate Cemetery, London, together with the Third Congress delegates. |
| Between April 27 and May 2 (May 10 and 15) | Lenin leaves London for Geneva. In Paris, en route, Lenin and a group of Third Congress delegates visit the place where the Paris Communards were shot—the Wall of the Confederates at the Père-Lachaise Cemetery. |
| May 5 (18) | Lenin’s article “Political Sophisms” is published in Vperyod, No. 18. |
| May 7 (20) | Lenin participates in a meeting of members of the staff of the Party’s Central Organ, Proletary, at which the Editorial Board’s plan of work is discussed. |
| May, after the 10th (23rd) | Lenin, on behalf of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., writes a letter “To the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy Abroad” asking it to state its attitude towards the decisions of the Third Congress of the Party. |
| May 14 (27) | Issue No. 1 of the Bolshevik newspaper Proletary, edited by Lenin, appears, containing the following articles by Lenin: “Report on the Third Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party” (editorial), “The Third Congress” and “How the Congress Was Constituted”. |
| May, prior to the 20th (June 2nd) | Lenin writes his article “On the Provisional Revolutionary Government”. The article was published in Proletary, Nos. 2 and 3. |
| May 20 (June 2) | Lenin writes a letter to the International Socialist Bureau concerning the recent Third Congress of the Party and its decision to consider the newspaper Proletary the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| May 21 (June 3) | Lenin’s article “The Advice of the Conservative Bourgeoisie” is published in Proletary, No. 2. |
| May 27 (June 9) | Lenin’s articles “Debacle” (editorial) and “Revolutionary Struggle and Liberal Brokerage” are published in Proletary, No. 3. |
| End of May |
Lenin writes the article “To the Jewish Workers”, published in Yiddish as preface to the pamphlet, Report on the Third Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. Lenin reports twice in Geneva on the Third Congress of the Party and the Menshevik Conference. |
| June 4 (17) | Lenin’s articles “The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat” (editorial) and “A New Revolutionary Workers’ Association” are published in Proletary, No. 4. |
| June 5 (18) | Lenin endorses the Statutes of the R.S.D.L.P. organisation abroad. |
| June, after the 12th (25th) | Lenin writes an open letter to the Editorial Board of the Leipziger Volkszeitung protesting against Kautsky’s garbled version of the split in the R.S.D.L.P. |
| June 13 (26) | Lenin’s articles “The First Steps of Bourgeois Betrayal” and “’Revolutionaries’ in Kid Gloves” are published in Proletary, No. 5. |
| June, prior to the 14th (27th) | Lenin arranges the publication of the Report on the Third Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party and of the major decisions of the Congress in German and in French. |
| June 20 (July 3) | Lenin’s articles “The Struggle of the Proletariat and the Servility of the Bourgeoisie” (editorial) and “A Third Step Back”, both on the question of the Mensheviks’ Geneva Conference, are published in Proletary, No. 6. |
| June 21 (July 4) | In a letter to the International Socialist Bureau Lenin asks that an appeal be issued to the workers of all countries to prevent the suppression of the revolt on the armoured cruiser Potemkin. |
| June 27 (July 10) | Lenin’s articles “The Revolutionary Army and the Revolutionary Government” (editorial), “The Russian Tsar Seeks the Protection of the Turkish Sultan Against His People”, and “The Bourgeoisie Bargains with the Autocracy, the Autocracy Bargains with the Bourgeoisie” are published in Proletary, No. 7. |
| End of June | Lenin instructs M. I. Vasilyev-Yuzhin, who is leaving for Russia, to establish contact with the Social-Democratic organisation directing the revolt in the Black Sea Fleet and on the armoured cruiser Potemkin. |
| June-July |
Lenin writes the leaflet “Three Constitutions or Three Systems of Government”. Lenin writes the book Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. |
| June-July | Lenin writes Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. |
| June 28 (July 11) | In a letter to the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., Lenin proposes that political guidance of Party organisations should be improved by means of regular publication of leaflets and bulletins by the Central Committee. |
| June 29 (July 12) | Lenin writes a letter to the Central Committee regarding the terms of G. Plekhanov’s appointment as the R.S.D.L.P.’s representative to the International Socialist Bureau. |
| July 11 (24) | In a letter to the International Socialist Bureau Lenin exposes the Mensheviks’ schismatic tactics. |
| July 13 (26) | Lenin’s articles “Revolution Teaches” and “Wrathful Impotence” are published in No. 9 of Proletary. |
| July, following 13 (26) | Lenin writes the preface to Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. |
| July 15 (28) | In a letter to the Central Committee, Lenin advises cancellation of the Central Committee’s decision to appoint Plekhanov as the R.S.D.L.P.’s representative to the International Socialist Bureau. |
| July 20 (August 2) | Lenin’s article “While the Proletariat Is Doing the Fighting the Bourgeoisie Is Stealing Towards Power” is published as the leading article in No. 10 of Proletary. |
| July 27 (August 9) | No. 11 of Proletary carries a report of the publication of Lenin’s Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. |
| July | Lenin writes the preface to the pamphlet Workers on the Split in the Party. |
| July-August | Lenin edits the Russian translation of Marx’s The Civil War in France for the second edition which was brought out in 1905 by the Burevestnik Publishers in Odessa. |
| August 1 (14) | In a letter to the Central Committee, Lenin criticises the conciliatory stand taken by Central Committee members in Russia (Bogdanov, Krasin and others), and demands that the decisions of the Party’s Third Congress be unswervingly applied in solving the problem of unification with the break-away section of the R.S.D.L.P. (the Mensheviks). |
| August 3 (16) | Lenin’s article “The Boycott of the Bulygin Duma, and Insurrection” is published as a leader in No. 12 of the newspaper Proletary. |
| August 9 (22) | No. 13 of Proletary carries Lenin’s article “Reply from the Proletary Editorial Board to Questions Put by Comrade Worker” and his note on M. N. Pokrovsky’s article “The Professional Intelligentsia and the Social-Democrats”. |
| August 16 (29) | No. 14 of Proletary carries the following articles by Lenin: “‘Oneness of the Tsar and the People, and of the People and the Tsar’” (leading article), “The Black Hundreds and the Organisation of an Uprising”, “Are the Zemstvo ‘Liberals’ Already Turning Back?”, and an editorial epilogue to the article, “The Third Congress on Trial Before the Caucasian Mensheviks”, the latter republished from No. 1 of the newspaper Borba Proletariata. |
| August |
Lenin writes the preface to the third edition of the pamphlet, The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats. He writes the plan of his pamphlet, The Working Class and Revolution. Publication of Lenin’s pamphlet The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx” (reprint of the first four chapters). |
| August 23 (September 5) | No. 15 of Proletary carries the following articles by Lenin: “In the Wake of the Monarchist Bourgeoisie, or in the Van of the Revolutionary Proletariat and Peasantry?” (leading article), “A Most Lucid Exposition of a Most Confused Plan”, and “Keeping International Social-Democracy Informed of Our Party Affairs”. |
| August 25 (September 7) | In a letter to members of the R.S.D.L.P.’s Central Committee in Russia, Lenin protests against their conciliatory stand in matters of tactics and categorically insists on the Editorial Board of the Central Organ, Proletary, being kept abreast of the Central Committee’s activities. |
| September 1 (14) |
No. 16 of Proletary carries the following articles by Lenin: “Social-Democracy’s Attitude Towards the Peasant Movement” (leading article), “What Our Liberal Bourgeois Want, and What They Fear” and “The Theory of Spontaneous Generation”. In a letter to P. A. Krasikov, Lenin gives instructions on the consolidation of R.S.D.L.P. local committees and on the need to establish closer relations between the St. Petersburg Committee and the Proletary Editorial Board. |
| September 2 (15) | In a letter to the Central Committee, Lenin insists on being informed in time of the Central Committee’s activities in Russia. |
| September 3 (16) | In a letter to the International Socialist Bureau, Lenin informs the latter of the consent of the R.S.D.L.P.’s Central Committee to a conference proposed by the Bureau in connection with differences within the R.S.D.L.P. |
| September 7 (20) | In a letter to S. I. Gusev Lenin writes of the need for Party workers from Russia to apply to the Proletary Editorial Board on matters of Bolshevik tactics and their implementation. |
| Following September 10 (23) | Lenin delivers a paper to Russian emigrants in Switzerland on the subject of Party tactics towards the Bulygin Duma. |
| September 13 (26) | No. 18 of Proletary carries the following articles by Lenin: “Friends Meet” (leading article), “Argue About Tactics, but Give Clear Slogans!”, “Playing at Parliamentarianism”, “From the Defensive to the Offensive”, “On the Current Moment”, and an insert to V. V. Vorovsky’s article “The Liberal Unions and Social-Democracy”. |
| Middle of September | Rabochy, mass organ of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., publishes in issue No. 2 an appeal to all Party organisations, written by Lenin and entitled “From the Editorial Board of the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P.” |
| September 20 (October 3) |
Lenin’s article, “The Zemstvo Congress” is published in No. 19 of Proletary. Lenin writes two letters to the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. with instructions on preparations for the Fourth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. and stresses the importance of political literature in giving leadership to Party work. |
| September 25 (October 8) | In a letter to the Central Committee, Lenin communicates the decision of the Southern Russian Conference of the Mensheviks regarding Plekhanov being empowered to act as the Mensheviks’ representative to the International Socialist Bureau, and proposes that V. Vorovsky should represent the Bolsheviks. |
| September, prior to the 27th (October 10) | Lenin writes the articles: “No Falsehood! Our Strength Lies in Stating the Truth!”, and “The Jena Congress of the German Social-Democratic Workers’ Party”. |
| September 27 (October 10) |
No. 20 of Proletary carries the following articles by Lenin: “Socialism and the Peasantry” (leading article), “A Replete Bourgeoisie and a Craving Bourgeoisie”, “The Landlords on the Boycott of the Duma”, “On the Question of Party Unity”, “An Irate Reply”, “A New Menshevik Conference” and “Representation of the Russian SocialDemocratic Labour Party in the International Socialist Bureau”. He writes the article “Days of Bloodshed in Moscow”. |
| September 30 (October 13) | In a letter to S. I. Gusev Lenin writes of the need to strengthen Party leadership in the trade unions. |
| End of September | Lenin writes the draft of the article “The Bourgeoisie Awakened from Its Slumber”. |
| September-October |
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution is illegally republished in Russia by the Central Committee, and separately by the Moscow Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin’s pamphlet To the Rural Poor is illegally republished by the Moscow Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., and legally by the Molot Publishers in St. Petersburg, under the title of The Needs of the Countryside (To the Rural Poor). |
| Early October | Lenin writes an item against A. N. Potresov (Starover) entitled “A Social-Democratic Sweetheart”. |
| October 3 (16) | In a letter to the Combat Committee of the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin gives directions on the formation of combat groups and contingents of the revolutionary army for an insurrection. |
| October 4 (17) | The following articles by Lenin are published in No. 21 of Proletary: “The Political Strike and the Street Fighting in Moscow” (leading article), “The Latest in Iskra Tactics, or Mock Elections as a New Incentive to an Uprising”. |
| Between October 4 and 11 (17 and 24) | The draft decisions of the Party’s Third Congress, which were written by Lenin, and the reports and speeches Lenin delivered at the Congress are published for the first time in the book The Third Regular Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. Full Text of the Minutes, which was brought out in Geneva by the Central Committee |
| October 7 (20) | Lenin writes the Rules of the Business Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.’s Central Committee. |
| October 11 (24) | No. 22 of Proletary carries the following: Lenin’s article “The Lessons of the Moscow Events”; his note “The Youth Abroad and the Russian Revolution”, and his review of the article “Reply to Sotsial-Demokrat” which was published in No. 3 (in Russian) of the newspaper Borba Proletariata |
| October 12 (25) | In a letter to the Central Committee, Lenin acknowledges notification of his appointment as the R.S.D.L.P.’s representative to the International Socialist Bureau. |
| October 13 (26) |
Lenin writes “The All-Russia Political Strike”, which is published as the leading article in No. 23 of Proletary, October 31 (18). A letter is sent by Lenin to M. M. Essen in St. Petersburg, regarding the need to build up preparations for an insurrection, and the formation of hundreds and thousands of combat groups. |
| October 14 (27) | Lenin writes to the International Socialist Bureau, informing it that F. Lengnik, P. Rumyantsev and he have been appointed to represent the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. at the conference proposed by the Bureau. |
| The second half of October |
Lenin writes the articles “Tasks of Revolutionary Army Contingents” and “What the Liberals Expect of the Duma”. Lenin draws up the plan of a pamphlet criticising P. Axelrod’s The People’s Duma and a Labour Congress (1905). |
| October 17 (30) | Lenin writes an outline of the article “An Equilibrium of Forces”. |
| October 18 (31) | The following articles by Lenin are published in No. 23 of Proletary: “The First Results of the Political Alignment”, “The Hysterics of the Defeated”, “Revolutionary Riga’s Ultimatum”, “The Plans of a Buffoon-Minister”, and “The Aggravation of the Situation in Russia”. |
| October 19 (November 1) | Lenin writes the article “The First Victory of the Revolution”, on the occasion of the Manifesto of October 17. This article is published as the leader in No. 24 of Proletary, November 7 (October 25). |
| October 20 (November 2) | At a meeting of Russian Social-Democrats in Geneva Lenin delivers a report on the recent political events in Russia. |
| October 25 (November 7) | No. 24 of Proletary publishes Lenin’s articles “Petty-Bourgeois and Proletarian Socialism”, and “Nikolai Ernestovich Bauman” (an obituary). |
| Late October | Lenin leaves Geneva for Russia via Stockholm. |
| November 2 (15) | Lenin writes the article “Between Two Battles”, which is subsequently published as the leading article in No. 26 of Proletary, November 25 (12). |
| November 3 (16) | Lenin’s “The Denouement Is at Hand” is published as the leading article in No. 25 of Proletary. |
| Late October-early November | Lenin awaits in Stockholm the papers he requires to return to Russia. |
| November 2 (15-17) | In Stockholm, Lenin writes his article “Our Tasks and the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies. A Letter to the Editor”. |
| November 5 (18) | Lenin arrives in Helsingfors from Stockholm. |
| November 7 or 8 (20 or 21) | Lenin arrives in St. Petersburg. |
| November 8 or 9 (21 or 22) | Lenin leads a meeting of the Bolshevik section of the editorial board of Novaya Zhizn; the meeting determines the composition of the editorial board and elaborates the programme of the newspaper for the immediate future. |
| November 9 (22) | Lenin attends a Central Committee meeting, which unanimously adopts the appeal “To All Party Organisations and All Social-Democratic Workers” concerning the convocation of the Fourth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| November 10 (23) | Novaya Zhizn, No. 9, publishes the beginning of the article “The Reorganisation of the Party”, the first article written by Lenin upon his return to Russia from exile. |
| November 12 (25) | In the leading article “The Proletariat and the Peasantry”, published in Novaya Zhizn, No. 11, Lenin greets the Congress of the All-Russian Peasant Union. |
| November 13 (26) | Lenin’s article “Party Organisation and Party Literature” appears in Novaya Zhizn, No. 12. At a meeting of the St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies, Lenin speaks on measures to counteract the lock-out organised by the capitalists in reply to the eight-hour day established in revolutionary manner by the workers. The resolution he proposes is carried. |
| November 15 (28) |
Lenin’s article “The Provocation That Failed” is published as the leader in Novaya Zhizn, No. 13, which also carries the next instalment of the article “The Reorganisation of the Party”. Lenin writes his article “The Armed Forces and the Revolution”. The article is published in Novaya Zhizn, No. 14, on November 16 (29). |
| November 16 (29) | At the seat of the Free Economic Society, Lenin delivers to a meeting of St. Petersburg Party workers a report entitled “A Criticism of the Agrarian Programme of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party”. The conclusion of Lenin’s article “The Reorganisation of the Party” appears in Novaya Zhizn, No. 14. |
| November 18 (December 1) | Lenin’s articles “The Scales Are Wavering” and “Learn from the Enemy” appear in Novaya Zhizn, No. 16. |
| November 20 (December 3) | Lenin’s article “Revolutionary Office Routine and Revolutionary Action”, dealing with the question of a constituent assembly, is published in Novaya Zhizn, No. 18. |
| November 23 (December 6) | Lenin’s article “The Dying Autocracy and New Organs of Popular Rule” is published as the leader in Novaya Zhizn, No. 19. |
| November 24 (December 7) | Lenin writes his article “Socialism and Anarchism”. The article appears in Novaya Zhizn, No. 21, on November 25 (December 8). |
| November 26 and December 2 (December 9 and 15) | Lenin’s article “The Socialist Party and Non-Party Revolutionism” is carried in Novaya Zhizn, Nos. 22 and 27. |
| November 27 (December 10) | Lenin attends a meeting of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P., which discusses questions relating to the preparation of an armed uprising, changes in the editorial board of Novaya Zhizn, and the publication of the Bolshevik newspaper Borba in Moscow. |
| November | At an enlarged session of the St. Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., Lenin speaks on the Party’s attitude to the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies. |
| December 3 (16) |
Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya take up their legal residence at 15/8 Grechesky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. Rigid secret police surveillance compels Lenin to go underground several days later. Lenin’s article “Socialism and Religion” is published in Novaya Zhizn, No. 28. Lenin attends an urgent joint conference of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P., the St. Petersburg Committee of the Party and the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies called in view of the closing of Novaya Zhizn. The conference also discusses the question of armed uprising. |
| December 12-17 (15-30) |
Lenin leads the First Bolshevik Conference in Tammerfors, Finland. He makes reports on the current situation and the agrarian question. The Conference passes his draft resolutions on the agrarian question and the convocation of a unity congress. Lenin participates in the committee appointed to draft a resolution on the attitude to be adopted towards the Duma, the resolution is passed by the Conference. |
| December 22 (January 4, 1906) | In St. Petersburg Lenin attends a conference of members of the Central Committee and delegates to the Tammerfors Bolshevik Conference. He makes a report on the Bolsheviks’ tactical platform with regard to the Duma. |
| Late 1905 or early 1906 | Lenin writes an outline of his article on the stages, direction and prospects of the revolution. |
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