| January 6 (19) |
Lenin takes part in the conference of the St. Petersburg organisation as a delegate from the Obvodny and Sapozhny sub-districts of Moscow District. Lenin is elected to the presidium of the conference. Lenin makes a report on electoral agreements at the forthcoming Duma elections. |
| January 7 (20) | Lenin’s article “Plekhanov and Vasilyev” is published in Proletary, No. 11. |
| January 14 (27) | Lenin’s article “The Workers’ Party Election Campaign in St. Petersburg” is published as a leading article in No. 1 of the Bolshevik weekly Prostiye Rechi. |
| January 13-14 (26-27) | Lenin writes the pamphlet The Social-Democrats and the Duma Elections. |
| January 15 (28) | Lenin writes the pamphlet “When You Hear the Judgement of a Fool....” (From the Notes of a Social-Democratic Publicist). |
| January-April | Lenin lives at Kokkala (Finland). |
| January 18 (31) | Lenin writes “The Social-Democratic Election Campaign in St. Petersburg”; published in Prostiye Rechi, No. 2, January 21 (February 3). |
| January 19 (February 1) | Lenin writes “Descending Rung by Rung”; published in Proletary, No. 12, January 25 (February 7). |
| January 19-20 (February 1-2) | Lenin writes “The Protest of the Thirty-One Mensheviks”; published in Proletary, No. 12, January 25 (February 7). |
| January 20 (February 2) | Lenin writes the pamphlet “The St. Petersburg Elections and the Hypocrisy of the Thirty-One Mensheviks”, published in St. Petersburg by the Novaya Duma Publishers. |
| January 25 (February 7) |
Lenin’s article “How To Vote in the St. Petersburg Elections (Is There a Danger of the Black Hundreds Winning the St. Petersburg Elections?)” published in the newspaper Zreniye, No. 1. Lenin’s article “The St. Petersburg Elections and the Crisis of Opportunism” published as the leading article in Proletary, No. 12. |
| End of January | Lenin arraigned before the Party tribunal by the Central Committee (the majority of which were Mensheviks) for his pamphlet “The St. Petersburg Elections and the Hypocrisy of the Thirty-One Mensheviks”. |
| January 30 (February 12) | Lenin writes his “The Elections in the Worker Curia in St. Petersburg” and “The Struggle Between S.D.’s and S.R.’s in the Elections in the Worker Curia in St. Petersburg”; published in Prostiye Rechi, No. 3. |
| February 4 (17) |
Lenin’s “How To Vote in the St. Petersburg Elections (Who Benefits from the Fables About the Black-Hundred Danger?)”, “The Moscow Elections—Preliminary Results”, and “A Political Lidvaliad” published in Zreniye, No. 2. Lenin writes his “The Significance of the St. Petersburg Elections”; published in Proletary No. 13, February 11 (24). |
| February 5 (18) | Lenin writes his preface to the Russian translation of Karl Marx’s Letters to Dr. Kugelmann, edited by Lenin and published in St. Petersburg in 1907. |
| February 7 (20) | Lenin writes the leading article for Proletary No. 13, “The Second Duma and the Second Revolutionary Wave”. |
| February 9 (22) | Lenin writes his “The Election Results in St. Petersburg”; published in Proletary, No. 13. |
| Beginning of February | Lenin writes his “Speech for the Defence (or for the Prosecution of the Menshevik Section of the Central Committee)” for the Party tribunal. |
| February 11 (24) | Lenin’s articles “The Results of the Elections in the Worker Curia in St. Petersburg”, “Some Figures on the Elections in the Worker Curia in South Russia”, “On the Report of the Moscow District of St. Petersburg Concerning the Elections to the Second Duma” published in Proletary, No. 13. |
| Between February 8 and 15 (21 and 28) | Lenin reads a report on the Duma campaign and the Duma tactics of the Social-Democrats at the third session of the Conference of the St. Petersburg (City and Regional) Organisation. |
| February 15-18 (February 28-March 3) |
Lenin writes the draft resolutions for the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin conducts the meeting of representatives of the St. Petersburg and Moscow Regional Committees, the Regional Bureau of the Central Industrial Region and the Editorial Board of the newspaper Proletary at which Lenin’s draft resolutions are discussed and approved. |
| February 17 (March 2) | Lenin grants an interview to a L’Humanité correspondent on the tactics of the R.S.D.L.P. in the election campaign. |
| February 20 (March 5) |
Lenin writes his article “The Opening of the Second State Duma”; published as the leading article in the newspaper Novy Luch, No. 1. Lenin writes “The Second Duma and the Tasks of the Proletariat”; published as the leading article in the newspaper Rabochy, No. 2, February 23 (March 8). |
| February 21 (March 6) | Lenin writes “The First Important Step”; published in the newspaper Novy Luch, No. 2. |
| February 22 (March 7) | Lenin writes the article “Petty-Bourgeois Tactics” for the newspaper Novy Luch, No. 4; published on February 23 (March 8). |
| February 23 (March 8) | Lenin writes the articles “What the Splitters Have to Say About the Coming Split” and “On the Tactics of Opportunism”; published in Novy Luch, No. 5, February 24 (March 9). |
| February 25 (March 10) | Lenin’s article “The Bolsheviks and the Petty Bourgeoisie” published as the leading article of Novy Luch, No. 6. |
| February 27 (March 12) | Lenin writes the leading article for Proletary No. 14, published on March 4 (17), “The Imminent Dissolution of the Duma and Questions of Tactics”. |
| Between February 27 and March 1 (March 12 and 14) | Lenin writes “Cadets and Trudoviks” for the newspaper Rabochaya Molva, No. 1. |
| February 28 (March 13) | Lenin’s draft manifesto “Apropos of Stolypin’s Declaration” discussed at a meeting of the SocialDemocratic Duma group. |
| End of February |
Lenin writes his article “The Elections to the Duma and the Tactics of the Russian Social-Democrats”; published in the German Social-Democratic journal Die Neue Zeit (New Times), No. 26 March 27 (N. S.). Lenin writes the first part of his “The Platform of Revolutionary Social-Democracy”; published in Proletary, No. 14, March 4 (17). |
| March 12 (25) | Lenin writes the second part of “The Platform of Revolutionary Social-Democracy”, published in Proletary, No. 15, March 25 (April 7). |
| March 19 (April 1) | Lenin writes his article “How Not To Write Resolutions”; published in the Bolshevik symposium Questions of Tactics. |
| March 21 (April 3) | Lenin writes his article “The Terms of the Deal”; published as the leading article in Proletary, No. 15, March 25 (April 7). |
| Between March 21 and 25 (April 3-7) | Lenin writes a draft speech on the agrarian question to be delivered in the Duma by a Social-Democrat deputy. |
| March 25 (April 7) |
Lenin presides at the first session of the St. Petersburg City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. in Terioki (Finland) and takes part in the discussion on the plan for the reorganisation of the St. Petersburg Committee and on questions concerning the organisational work of the St. Petersburg Committee. Lenin was elected delegate from the Conference for liaison with Social-Democratic group in the Second Duma. Lenin’s article “Fine Words—Foul Deeds” published in the newspaper Nashe Ekho, No. 1. |
| March 27 (April 9) | Lenin’s article “The Duma and the Approval of the Budget” published as the leading article in the newspaper Nashe Ekho, No. 2. |
| March 28 (April 10) | Lenin writes the article “The Cuckoo Praises the Rooster”, published as the leading article of Nashe Ekho, No. 4, March 29 (April 11). |
| March 30 (April 12) | Lenin’s article “Intellectualist Warriors Against Domination by the Intelligentsia” published in Nashe Ekho, No. 5. |
| End of March | Lenin delivers his speech for the defence (or for the prosecution of the Menshevik section of the Central Committee) at the first session of the Party tribunal, in which he exposes the breakaway activities of the Mensheviks in the St. Petersburg organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| March | Lenin reports on the current situation and on the tasks of the Party at an instructional conference of Bolsheviks leaving to organise the election of delegates to the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. in various localities. |
| April 1 (14) | Lenin’s article “The Agrarian Question and the Forces of the Revolution” published in Nashe Ekho, No. 7. |
| April 2 (15) | Lenin writes his article “An Anaemic Duma or an Anaemic Petty Bourgeoisie”; published as the leading article in Nashe Ekho, No. 8, April 3 (16). |
| April 3 (16) | Lenin writes “Banality Triumphant or S.R.’s Ape the Cadets” as the leading article for Nashe Ekho, No. 9; published on April 4 (17). |
| April 4 (17) | Lenin writes “The Social-Democratic Group and April 3 in the Duma”; published in Nashe Ekho, No. 10, April 5 (18). |
| April 5-6 (18-19) | Lenin writes “The Strength and Weakness of the Russian Revolution”; published in Nashe Ekho, Nos. 10 and 12. |
| April 6 (19) | Lenin writes the “Preface to the Russian Translation of Letters by Johannes Becker, Joseph Dietzgen, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx and Others to Friedrich Sorge and Others”. |
| April 8 (21) | Lenin takes part in the discussion on the report on the activities of the Social-Democratic group in the Second State Duma at the second session of the Conference of the St. Petersburg Social-Democratic organisation. |
| April 10 (23) | Lenin writes “The Duma and the Russian Liberals”; published as the leading article in Nashe Ekho, No. 14. |
| April 15 (28) | Lenin’s “Larin and Khrustalev” published in the newspaper Trud, No. 1. |
| April |
Lenin’s articles “The Menshevik Tactical Platform”, “Angry Embarrassment (The Question of the Labour Congress)” and “Franz Mehring on the Second Duma” published in the symposium Questions of Tactics. Lenin’s pamphlet “Report to the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. on the St. Petersburg Split and the Institution of the Party Tribunal Ensuing Therefrom” published. Lenin is elected delegate to the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. and receives a mandate to represent the Verkhne-Kamskaya (Urals) organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin participates in the meeting of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at Terioki at which questions of the forthcoming Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. are discussed; he speaks against Axelrod’s proposal to convene a “labour congress”. |
| End of April |
Lenin leaves for Copenhagen where the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. is to open. He speaks at a meeting of Bolshevik delegates on the question of the combat groups. Lenin leaves for London where the sessions of the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. are to be held. |
| April 30-May 17 (May 13-June 1) | Fifth (London) Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin plays a leading part in the work of the Congress. |
| April 30 (May 13) | Opening of the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. in London. Lenin is elected to the Presidium. |
| May 1 (13) |
Lenin speaks at the second session of the Congress in the discussion of the draft Congress Standing Orders. Lenin speaks at the third session of the Congress, against the termination of the discussion on the agenda. |
| May 2 (14) |
Lenin speaks at the fourth session of the Congress in favour of placing on the agenda questions of the general principles of basic Party tactics in the bourgeois revolution. Lenin speaks at the fifth session of the Congress on the method of voting by name. Lenin’s articles “Reorganisation and the End of the Split in St. Petersburg”, “On the Question of a Nation-Wide Revolution”, and “Apropos of the Minutes of the November Military and Combat Conference of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party” published in Proletary, No. 16. |
| May 3 (16) | Lenin presides at the sixth and seventh sessions of the Congress. |
| May 4 (17) | Lenin participates in the discussion at the eighth session of the Congress of the report on the activities of the Central Committee and criticises the opportunist tactics of the Mensheviks. |
| May 6 (18) | Lenin speaks on a point of order at the eleventh session of the Congress. |
| May 8 (21) |
Lenin presides at the fourteenth and fifteenth sessions of the Congress. Lenin takes part in the discussion on the report of the Duma group and criticises its political errors. |
| May 9 (22) | At the sixteenth session of the Congress Lenin is elected to the commission to compile a draft resolution on the report of the Duma group. |
| May 10 (23) | Lenin’s declaration of protest against Martov’s distortion of the interview granted by Lenin to the L’Humanité correspondent is read at the eighteenth session of the Congress. |
| May 11 (24) | Lenin speaks at the twentieth session of the Congress on the way in which the resolution on the report of the Duma group is to be voted on. |
| May 12 (25) | Lenin makes a report on the attitude to bourgeois parties at the twenty-second session of the Congress. |
| May 14 (27) |
Lenin delivers the concluding speech in the discussion on the report on the attitude to bourgeois parties, at the twenty-fourth session of the Congress. Lenin reports on the work of the commission to compile a resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties. |
| May 15 (28) |
Lenin speaks at the twenty-sixth session of the Congress in the discussion on the draft resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties submitted by the Polish delegates. Lenin speaks against the amendments proposed by Lieber and Trotsky to the Bolshevik resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties. Lenin presides at the twenty-seventh session of the Congress. Lenin speaks against the amendments proposed by Broches and Trotsky to the resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties. |
| May 16 (29) |
Lenin speaks against Martov’s amendment to the resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties at the twenty-eighth session of the Congress. Lenin speaks against amendments tabled by Trotsky, Martov, and Martynov to the resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties at the twentyninth session of the Congress. The Congress adopts the resolution on the attitude to bourgeois parties as written by Lenin. |
| May 18 (31) | In the name of the commission to compile a resolution on the State Duma, Lenin speaks at the thirty-third session of the Congress. |
| May 19 (June 1) |
Lenin presides at the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth sessions of the Congress. Lenin proposes relegating to the Central Committee the decision on the representative of the Party on the International Socialist Bureau. The proposal is accepted by the Congress. Lenin speaks against the Menshevik proposal to call the Congress “The London First Congress of the United Party” and in favour of calling it the Fifth Congress. Lenin tables a proposal on the procedure for nominating candidates to the Central Committee by the various sections. Lenin proposes re-voting on those candidates for election to the Central Committee who have received an equal number of votes. Lenin speaks in the discussion in favour of authorising a smaller number of delegates to the session of the Congress that is to conduct the re-voting on those candidates for election to the Central Committee who have obtained an equal number of votes. Lenin’s proposal is accepted. Lenin is elected to the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| Second half of May | At the end of the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. a meeting of Bolsheviks elects a Bolshevik Centre, headed by Lenin. |
| May 21-25 (June 3-7) |
Lenin is present at the Second Congress of SocialDemocrats of the Latvian Area in London. Lenin makes a brief report on the tasks of the proletariat at the present moment in the bourgeois revolution; he tables a draft resolution on that question. |
| Beginning of June |
Lenin returns from the Congress to Kokkala. Lenin speaks at Terioki on the Fifth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. to workers from St. Petersburg. In view of increasing police persecution Lenin moves from Kokkala to Stirsudden (Finland). Lenin writes his article “The Attitude Towards Bourgeois Parties”. |
| June, after 22 (July 5) | Lenin writes the article “In Memory of Count Heyden (What Are Our Non-Party ‘Democrats’ Teaching the People?)” for the symposium Voice of Life. |
| June 25 (July 8) | Lenin is elected by the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. to represent the Party on the International Socialist Bureau. |
| June 26 (July 9) | Lenin writes the article “Against Boycott (Notes of a Social-Democratic Publicist)”. The article was published in a booklet On the Boycott of the Third Duma, which came out in August 1907. |
| June-July | Lenin takes his holiday in Styrsudd (Finland). |
| July 8 and 14 (21 and 27) | Lenin takes part in the proceedings of the St. Petersburg City Conference held in Terijoki; makes a report on the question of the attitude of SocialDemocracy towards the Third Duma. The Conference adopts Lenin’s resolution against the boycott of the Third Duma. The theses of Lenin’s report are published in leaflet form. |
| July 16 (29) | By decision of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. Lenin is elected a member of the R.S.D.L.P.’s delegation to the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart. |
| July 21-23 (August 3-5) | Lenin takes part in the proceedings of the Third Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (“Second AllRussian”) held in Kotka (Finland); makes a report on the question of participation in the elections to the Third Duma. The Conference adopts a resolution proposed by Lenin against boycotting the elections to the Third Duma. Lenin’s draft resolution on the All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions is handed over to the C.C. as material. |
| July | Lenin prepares the second edition of his book The Development of Capitalism in Russia, to which he makes additions and writes a preface. |
| August 1 (14) | In a letter to A. M. Gorky Lenin invites him to take part in the proceedings of the Stuttgart International Socialist Congress and notifies Gorky that the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. has granted him a consultative voice. |
| August 5-10 (18-23) | Lenin takes part in the proceedings of the Stuttgart Congress; he is elected to the committee for drafting a resolution “On Militarism and International Conflicts”. |
| Between August 5 and 10 (18 and 23) | Lenin calls and holds a conference of Left Socialists, delegates of the Stuttgart Congress. |
| August after 11 (24) | Lenin returns to Kokkala (Finland) from Stuttgart. |
| August 22 (September 4) | Lenin writes his article “Notes of a Publicist” for the symposium Voice of Life, defending Bolshevik tactics in regard to the Third Duma and the Duma parties. |
| Between August 31 and September 7 (September 13 and 20) | The symposium Voice of Life edited by Lenin and containing his articles “In Memory of Count Heyden” and “Notes of a Publicist” appears in St. Petersburg. |
| August | The C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. elects Lenin Editor-in-Chief of the Party’s Central Organ Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| August-September | Lenin writes two articles on the subject of “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart”. One of them, a popular article, was written for the Bolshevi publication Kalendar dlya vsekh, 1908. |
| August-October | Lenin edits the Russian translations of the reports to the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart made by the Austrian Social-Democratic Party and the Italian Socialist Party. |
| August-December | Lenin prepares for the press a three-volume edition of his works entitled Twelve Years. |
| Beginning of September | Lenin makes a report on the International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart to the St. Petersburg City Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| September 7 (20) | Lenin is elected by the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. to the Editorial Board of Sotsial-Demokrat and its management committee. The post of Editor-in-Chief of the Central Organ is abolished at this meeting. |
| September | Lenin writes the preface to Volume I of his collected works Twelve Years. |
| Between October 19 and 26 (November 1 and 8) | The symposium Zarnitsi (Summer Lightnings) edited by Lenin appears in St. Petersburg. Kalendar dlya vsekh, 1908 containing Lenin’s article “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart” appears in St. Petersburg |
| October 20 (November 2) | Lenin’s articles “Revolution and Counter-Revolution” and “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart” are published in the newspaper Proletary, issue No. 17. |
| October 27 (November 9) | Lenin takes part in the proceedings of the Conference of the St. Petersburg organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. in Terijoki at which he makes reports “On the Third Duma” and “On the participation of Social-Democrats in the bourgeois press”. The Conference adopts Lenin’s resolution “On the Third Duma”. |
| October 29 (November 11) | Lenin’s article “The Third Duma” and the editorial note “On Plekhanov’s Article” are published in Proletary, No. 18. |
| November, up to 5th (18th) | Lenin attends the preliminary meeting of the Bolshevik delegates to “The Fourth Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| November 5 (18) | Lenin’s articles “The Preparation of a ‘Disgusting Orgy’”, “But Who Are the Judges?”, and “Resolution on the Third State Duma” adopted at the Conference of the St. Petersburg organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. are published in Proletary, No. 19. |
| November 5-12 (18-25) | Lenin takes part in the proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (“Third AllRussian”) in Helsingfors, makes a report “On the Tactics of the Social-Democratic Group in the Third State Duma”. The Conference adopts Lenin’s resolution on this question. |
| November | Lenin writes the “Preface to the Pamphlet by Voinov (A. V. Lunacharsky) on the Attitude of the Party Towards the Trade Unions”. |
| Autumn 1907 | Lenin writes Chapters X-XII of The Agrarian Question and the “Critics of Marx”. |
| Between November 16 and 23 (November 29 and December 6) | The volume of collected works Twelve Years by V. I. Lenin (Vl. Ilyin) appears in St. Petersburg. |
| November (beginning of December) |
Twelve Years, the volume of collected works by Lenin is confiscated by the police. Legal proceedings are taken against Lenin. Lenin hides from the police by leaving Kokkala for Aggelby (near Helsingfors). |
| November-December | Lenin works on his book The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907. |
| December | Lenin leaves Aggelby for abroad. While waiting for N. K. Krupskaya to join him he spends several days in Stockholm. |
| December 22 (January 4, 1908) | The St. Petersburg Law Court orders Lenin’s book Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution to be destroyed. |
| December 22-24 (January 4-6, 1908) | On his way to Geneva Lenin stops over in Berlin where he meets, Rosa Luxemburg. |
| December 25 (January 7 1908) | Lenin arrives in Geneva with N. K. Krupskaya. The beginning of Lenin’s second period of emigration. |
| December 1907-February 1908 | Lenin is engaged in the work of preparing Proletary for publication in Geneva. |
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