| January 5-17 (18-30) | Lenin plays a leading role in the Prague Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.; speaks at the opening of the Conference and delivers the report on the tasks of the Party in the present situation; takes the chair at sessions, drafts resolutions on the constitution of the Conference, on the tasks of the Party in the present situation, on liquidationism and the group of liquidators, on the tasks of the Social-Democrats in the struggle against the famine, on the political campaign, and drafts changes in the organisational Rules of the Party. |
| January 5 (18) | Lenin speaks on the constitution of the Conference |
| January 6, 7 and 10 (19, 20 and 23) | At five sessions of the Conference Lenin takes the minutes of the reports of the local organisations. |
| January 7 (20) |
At the fifth session of the Conference Lenin delivers a speech on the work of the Central Organ and a report on the work of the International Socialist Bureau; replies to delegates’ questions and speaks in the discussion on the resolution dealing with reports of the local organisations. At the sixth session of the Conference Lenin speaks twice in the discussion on his report on the work of the International Socialist Bureau. |
| January 8 (21) |
At the eighth session of the Conference Lenin speaks in the discussion on the tasks of Social-Democracy in the struggle against the famine. The draft resolution drawn up by Lenin on this question is adopted by the Conference. |
| Between January 9 and 13 (22 and 26) | Instructed by the Conference, Lenin draws up a message of Greeting to the German Social-Democrats in connection with their success at the elections to the German Reichstag. This message was published in Vorwärts on January 27, 1912. |
| January 10 (23) | At the eleventh session of the Conference, Lenin takes part in the discussion on the question of Party work abroad. |
| January 11 (24) | At the twelfth session of the Conference Lenin delivers a speech on organisational questions. |
| January 12 (25) | At the fifteenth session of the Conference Lenin’s draft resolution on the tasks of the Party in the present situation is adopted. |
| Between January 12 and 17 (25 and 30) | The Prague Conference elects Lenin to the C.C., the Central Organ, and as representative to the International Socialist Bureau. |
| January 19 (February 1) | Lenin meets the Social-Democratic deputies to the State Duma in Leipzig and acquaints them with the decisions of the Prague Conference. |
| End of January | Lenin leaves Leipzig for Berlin to receive Party funds from the “trustees” in accordance with the decisions of the Prague Conference. |
| February | In a letter to Maxim Gorky, Lenin informs him of the All-Russia Party Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. which has taken place, and asks him to write a May Day leaflet for publication in Russia. |
| February 19 (March 3) | Lenin’s article “An Organ of a Liberal Labour Policy” is published in Zvezda, No. 11. |
| February 28 (March 12) | Lenin writes a letter to G. L. Shklovsky in Berne on the necessity of reading a paper in all Swiss towns on the results of the Prague Conference, informs him of its composition and proceedings, the steps taken in Russia to bring its decisions to the knowledge of the local organisations, the break with the liquidators, the intention of the Bund and the Lettish Social-Democrats to convene a conference with the participation of the liquidators and the stand of the Duma Social-Democratic group. |
| February | Lenin edits the pamphlet The All-Russia Conference of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, 1912. The pamphlet was issued in February 1912 in Paris, published by the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| Not earlier than March 2 (15) | Lenin writes the article “Against Unity—With the Liquidators”, published in Prosveshcheniye, No. 3-4, in February-March 1912. |
| March 3 (17) | Lenin’s article “Political Parties in the Five Years of the Third Duma” is published in Zvezda, No. 14. |
| March 5 (18) | Lenin’s Report to the International Socialist Bureau on the All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. is distributed to the socialist parties by the Secretary of the I.S.B., in Circular No. 4 of March 18, for publication in their party press. |
| Beginning of March | Lenin writes “The Election Platform of the R.S.D.L.P.” It is published as a separate leaflet in March 1912 in Russia and abroad in April as a supplement to No. 26 of Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| March 12-13 (25-26) | Lenin writes “Put Your Cards on the Table”. Lenin in a letter to the Editorial Board of Zvezda asks them to send him books on the electoral law of June 3 (16), 1907 and other materials essential for compiling and editing the pamphlet Voter’s Handbook (Our Election Law), enquires about the publication of a daily workers’ paper, its size, etc. |
| March 13 (26) | Lenin’s article “Deputy T. O. Belousov’s Withdrawal from the Social-Democratic Group in the Duma” is published in Zvezda, No. 17. |
| Between March 13 and 19 (between March 26 and April 1) | Lenin writes the pamphlet “The Anonymous Writer in Vorwärts and the State of Affairs in the R.S.D.L.P.” It was published in 1912 in Paris by the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P., Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| March 15 (28) | Lenin in a letter to G. K. Orjonikidze and other members of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P. Bureau in Russia in Tiflis points out the necessity for strengthening the ties of the local Party organisations with the centre abroad, and urges that organisations be visited and the news of the Prague Conference be brought to them as soon as possible. |
| March 17 (30) | Rabochaya Gazeta, No. 8, publishes Lenin’s articles “Famine” and “The Peasantry and the Elections to the Fourth Duma”. |
| Between March 23 and 26 (between April 5 and 8) | Lenin writes the article “The Bloc of the Cadets with the Progressists and Its Significance”. It is published in Zvezda, No. 23, March 29 (April 11). |
| Prior to March 30 (April 12) |
Lenin writes a report and a letter to the Secretary of the International Socialist Bureau, Huysmans, in connection with the statement of the liquidationist and otzovist groups abroad against the decisions of the Prague Conference. Lenin’s report is sent by the International Socialist Bureau on March 30 (April 12) to all socialist parties in Circular No. 7, to be published in their party press. |
| April 1 (14) | Lenin’s article “A Poor Defence of a Liberal Labour Policy” is published in Zvezda, No. 24. |
| April 3 (16) | Lenin’s article “The Second Ballot in Russia and the Tasks of the Working Class” is published in Zvezda, No. 25. |
| April 8 and 19 (April 21 and May 2) | Lenin’s article “Liberalism and Democracy” is published in Zvezda, Nos. 27 and 32. |
| Prior to April 9 (22) | Lenin edits the Voter’s Handbook (Our Election Law). |
| April | Lenin guides the organisation of the publication of the legal Bolshevik paper Pravda. |
| April-later part of June (N.S.) | Lenin lives in Paris |
| April 22 (May 5) | The first issue of Pravda, a legal Bolshevik daily, is published. |
| April 25 (May 8) | Lenin’s articles “The Fourth Duma Election Campaign and the Tasks of the Revolutionary Social-Democrats”, “The Liquidators Against the Party” and “In Memory of Herzen” are published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 26. |
| April 26 (May 9) | At a meeting of the Paris section of the R.S.D.L.P. Organisation Abroad, Lenin reports on the Lena shootings, on strikes in Russia and on the Party tactics necessitated by those events. |
| May 6 (19) | Lenin’s article “Landownership in European Russia” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 3. |
| May 8 and 9 (21 and 22) | Lenin’s article “The Trudoviks and the Worker Democrats” is published in Pravda Nos. 13 and 14. |
| May 10 (23) | Lenin’s article “Political Parties in Russia” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 5. |
| May 22 (June 4) | Lenin’s articles “The Essence of the ‘Agrarian Problem in Russia’” and “Some Conclusions To Be Drawn from the Pre-election Mobilisation” are published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 6. |
| May 31 (June 13) |
Lenin reads the paper “The Revolutionary Upsurge of the Russian Proletariat” at the Salle de l’Alcazar, at a meeting organised by the Paris section of the R.S.D.L.P. Organisation Abroad. Lenin’s article “Economic and Political Strikes” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 10. |
| June 3 (16) | Lenin’s article “The Problem of Resettlement” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 11. |
| June 4 (17) |
Lenin’s articles “The Revolutionary Upswing”, “The Slogans of the All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. in January 1912 and the May Day Movement”, “The Liquidators Oppose Revolutionary Mass Strikes” and “‘Uniters’” are published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 27. Lenin reads a paper on “Revolutionary Upswing in Russia” in Leipzig. |
| Latter part, June (N.S.) | Lenin moves from Paris to Cracow to establish closer ties with Russia and give greater guidance to the Bolshevik Duma group and the Editorial Board of Pravda. |
| June 10 (23) | Lenin’s article “The Nature and Significance of Our Polemics Against the Liberals” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 12. |
| June 17 (30) | Lenin’s article “Capitalism and ‘Parliament’” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 13. |
| June 21 (July 4) | Lenin in Cracow moves to 218 Ul. Zwierzyniec. |
| June 24 (July 7) | Lenin’s article “The Elections and the Opposition” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 14. |
| End of June | Lenin writes the article “The Situation in the R.S.D.L.P. and the Immediate Tasks of the Party”. The article was published in Gazeta Robotnicza, the “Rozlamist” opposition newspaper of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania, No. 15-16, on July 3 (16). |
| July 1 (14) | Lenin’s articles “The Significance of the St. Petersburg Elections” and “A Comparison of the Stolypin and the Narodnik Agrarian Programmes” are published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 15. |
| July 6 (19) | Lenin writes a letter to Pravda exposing Trotsky as a liar and intriguer. |
| Not later than July 8 (21) | Lenin writes the item “A Reply to the Liquidators” for Pravda, insisting on a more determined fight against the liquidators at the Fourth Duma elections. |
| July 11 (24) | Lenin writes a letter to Nevskaya Zvezda emphatically condemning the editors’ fear of polemics against the liquidators. |
| July 12 (25) | Lenin’s article “In Switzerland” is published in Pravda No. 63. |
| July 12-15 (25-28) | Lenin writes the article “The Results of Six Months’ Work” and sends it to Pravda with directions on how it should be published. The article appeared in Pravda Nos. 78 to 81, on July 29 and 31 (August 11 and 13), and August 1 and 2 (14 and 15) |
| July 15 (28) |
Lenin’s article “Democracy and Narodism in China” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 17. Lenin’s articles “The Italian Socialist Congress” and “‘Freedom of Speech’ in Russia” are published in Pravda No. 66. |
| July 17 (30) | Lenin drafts a letter for the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. in reply to the inquiry of the Executive Board of the German Social-Democratic Party on the convening of a meeting of R.S.D.L.P. “centres”, organisations and groups with the aim of achieving unity at the Fourth Duma elections. The letter formed the main content of the pamphlet The Present Situation in the R.S.D.L.P. |
| July 19 (August 1) |
Lenin writes to Pravda insisting on an answer as to the editors’ intention to introduce into the newspaper an anti-liquidationist section devoted to the Fourth Duma elections. Lenin writes to Maxim Gorky to inform him of the revolutionary movement in Russia and of the publication of Pravda, a workers’ daily newspaper. |
| July 20 (August 2) |
Lenin writes to Pravda pointing out the necessity for “launching polemics” against the Cadet press before the elections to the Fourth Duma. Lenin’s article “Capitalism and Popular Consumption” is published in Pravda No. 70. |
| July 22 and 29 (August 4 and 11) | Lenin’s article “How P. B. Axelrod Exposes the Liquidators” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda Nos. 18 and 19. |
| July 25 (August 7) | Lenin’s article “Liberals and Clericals” is published in Pravda No. 74. |
| July 26 (August 8) | Lenin’s article “Cadets and Democrats” is published in Pravda No. 75. |
| July 28 (August 10) | Lenin’s article “The Liberal Campaign” is published in Pravda No. 77. |
| July 30 (August 12) | Lenin’s articles “Revolts in the Army and Navy”, “On the Eve of the Elections to the Fourth Duma”, “Can the Slogan ‘Freedom of Association’ Serve as a Basis for the Working-Class Movement Today?” are published in Rabochaya Gazeta No. 9. |
| July 31 (August 13) | Lenin’s article “Questions of Principle” is published in Pravda No. 79. |
| Late July-early August | Lenin’s “Letter to the Swiss Workers” is brought out as a hectographed leaflet in German in Zurich. |
| August 5 (18) | Lenin’s article “The Last Valve” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 20. |
| August 8 (21) | Lenin’s articles “A Little Explanation” and “Workers’ Earnings and Capitalist Profits in Russia” are published in Pravda No. 85. |
| August 9 (22) | Lenin’s article “The Strike Movement and Wages” is published in Pravda No. 86. |
| August 11 and 12 (24 and 25) | Lenin’s articles “The Working Day in the Factories of Moscow Gubernia”, “In Britain” and “Concentration of Production in Russia” are published in Pravda Nos. 88 and 89. |
| August 12 (25) | Lenin’s article “The Working Day and Working Year in Moscow Gubernia” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 21. |
| August 18 (31) |
Lenin’s article “A Career” is published in Pravda No. 94. Lenin writes the letter “To the Secretariat of the International Socialist Bureau” protesting against the letter of the Executive of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania by which the I.S.B. was informed of the split among the Polish Social-Democrats. |
| August 19 (September 1) | Lenin’s article “The Cadets and the Agrarian Question” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 22. |
| August 21 (September 3) | Lenin’s article “A Poor Defence” is published in Pravda No. 96. |
| August 22 (September 4) | In Cracow, Lenin moves to an apartment at 47 Ul. Lubomirskiego. |
| August 24 (September 6) | Lenin’s article “The Liquidators and ‘Unity’” is published in Pravda No. 99. |
| August 26 (September 8) | Lenin’s article “A Talk on ‘Cadet-Eating’” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 23. |
| August 29 (September 11) | Lenin’s article “The Workers and Pravda” is published in Pravda No. 103. |
| August 30 (September 12) | Lenin’s articles “Before and Now” and “The International Congress of Judges” are published in Pravda No. 104. |
| August 31 (September 13) | Lenin’s article “In Switzerland” is published in Pravda No. 105. |
| Late August | Lenin writes an introduction and an afterword to the pamphlet The Present Situation in the R.S.D.L.P. |
| September 2 and 9 (15 and 22) | Lenin’s article “Yet Another Anti-Democratic Campaign” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda Nos. 24 and 25. |
| September 5 (18) | Lenin’s article “The Unity of the Cadets and Novoye Vremya” is published in Pravda No. 109. |
| September 15 (28) | Lenin’s article “Concerning N. S. Polyansky’s Letter” is published in Pravda No. 118. |
| September 16 (29) | Lenin’s article “The Political Line” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 26. |
| September 18 (October 1) | Lenin’s article “The Successes of the American Workers” is published in Pravda No. 120. |
| September 28 (October 11) | Lenin’s article “The End of the Italo-Turkish War” is published in Pravda No. 129. |
| Second half of September |
Lenin writes a letter to Maxim Corky informing him of the progress of the Fourth Duma elections and asking him to write for Pravda. Lenin’s pamphlet The Present Situation in the R.S.D.L.P. is published in German in Leipzig. |
| October 4 (17) |
Lenin’s article “A Game of Chance” is published in Pravda No. 134. Lenin writes to Maxim Gorky suggesting that he should become a permanent contributor to Pravda. |
| October 5 (18) | Lenin’s article “The Priesthood in the Elections, and Elections with the Priesthood” is published in Nevskaya Zvezda No. 27. |
| October 6 (19) | Lenin’s article “Mr. Milyukov’s ‘Position’” is published in Pravda No. 136. |
| October 13 (26) | Lenin writes to Pravda, insisting that the Bolsheviks’ election platform be propagated with greater determination prior to the congress of the delegates from the St. Petersburg worker curia, that lists of the Bolshevik candidates for the office of elector be published in full and that a special issue of Pravda be devoted to the Duma elections. |
| October 16 (29) | Lenin’s articles “Deputy of the St. Petersburg Workers” and “The Balkan Peoples and European Diplomacy” are published in Pravda No. 144. |
| October 18 (31) | Lenin’s articles “The Fox and the Hen-Coop” and “A Disgraceful Resolution” are published in Pravda No. 146. |
| October 19 (November 1) | Lenin’s article “A Cadet Professor” appears in Pravda No. 147. |
| October 21 (November 3) | Lenin’s article “A New Chapter of World History” is published in Pravda No. 149. |
| October 24 (November 6) | Lenin’s article “Cadets and Nationalists” is published in Pravda No. 151. |
| October 28 (November 10) | Lenin’s article “The Horrors of War” is published in Pravda No. 155. |
| October |
Lenin writes the article “Debates in Britain on Liberal Labour Policy”. It was published in Prosveshcheniye No. 4, 1913. Lenin writes the article “Two Utopias”. |
| Early November | Lenin writes the theses “Concerning Certain Speeches by Workers’ Deputies” as a guide for the drafting of a declaration of the Social-Democratic group. |
| November 4 (17) | Lenin’s article “Truly Russian Morals” is published in Pravda No. 160. |
| November 5 (18) | Lenin’s articles “The Platform of the Reformists and the Platform of the Revolutionary SocialDemocrats” and “The Illegal Party and Legal Work” are published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 28-29. |
| November 7 (20) | Lenin’s article “The Social Significance of the Serbo-Bulgarian Victories” is published in Pravda No. 162. |
| November 8 (21) | Lenin’s article “Regenerated China” is published in Pravda No. 163. |
| November 9 (22) | Lenin’s article “The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential Elections” is published in Pravda No. 164 |
| November 13 (26) | Lenin sends the Bolshevik members of the Fourth Duma his draft of a declaration of the Social-Democratic group. |
| November | Lenin writes the article “Concerning the Event of November 15. An Undelivered Speech”. |
| November 28 (December 11) | Lenin sends to Prosveshcheniye in St. Petersburg a questionnaire for the Bolshevik deputies to sum up the results of the elections for the worker curia. |
| November 29 (December 12) | Lenin’s article “The Disease of Reformism” is published in Pravda No. 180. |
| November 30 (December 13) | Lenin’s article “Impoverishment in Capitalist Society” is published in Pravda No. 181. |
| November |
Lenin holds a meeting of the Central Committee to discuss the financial crisis in the Pravda Editorial Board. Lenin writes the article “The ‘Vexed Questions’ of Our Party. The ‘Liquidationist’ and ‘National’ Questions”. The article first appeared in August 1913 in Pismo Dyskusyjne No. 1, published by the Warsaw and Lodz committees of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania. |
| December 12 (25) | Lenin’s article “The Working Class and Its ‘Parliamentary’ Representatives” is published in Pravda No. 191. |
| December 15 (28) | Lenin’s “article The ‘Reconciliation’ of the Nationalists and Cadets” is published in Pravda No. 194. |
| December 22 (January 4, 1913) | Lenin’s article “The National-Liberals” is published in Pravda No. 200. |
| December | Lenin writes the theses “On the Attitude to Liquidationism and on Unity” for the “February” Meeting of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. and Party functionaries. |
| December 26-January 1 (January 8-14, 1913) |
Lenin leads the “February” Meeting of the C.C. R.S.D.L.P. and Party functionaries. The Meeting adopted resolutions drafted by Lenin: on the revolutionary upswing; the strikes and the tasks of the Party; the building up of the illegal organisation; the Social-Democratic group in the Duma; illegal literature; the insurance campaign; the attitude to liquidationism, and unity; the non-Russian Social-Democratic organisations At the Meeting Lenin outlined a series of steps to improve the work of the Pravda Editorial Board. Lenin holds a meeting of the Central Committee and Bolshevik deputies to discuss the activities of the Bolshevik group in the Fourth Duma. |
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