In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party. (Summary by Christian Pecaut)
Chapters
1 Preface 12 min 2 An Urgent Political Question 12 min 3 Provisional Revolutionary Government 24 min 4 What Is A Decisive Victory of the Revolution Over Tsarism? 22 min 5 The Abolition of the Monarchist System and the Republic 18 min 6 How Should The Revolution Be Pushed Forward? 10 min 7 From what Direction is the Proletariat Threatened with the Danger of Having its Hands Tied in the Struggle Against the Inconsistent Bourgeoisie? 44 min 8 The Tactics of Eliminating The Conservatives from the Government 15 min 9 Osvobozhdeniyeism and New Iskra Trends 29 min 10 What Does Being A Party of Extreme Opposition In Time of Revolution Mean? 12 min 11 Revolutionary Communes and the Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry 34 min 12 A Cursory Comparison Between Several of the Resolutions of the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. and Those of the Conference 16 min 13 Will the Sweep of the Democratic Revolution be Diminished if the Bourgeoisie Recoils from it? 29 min 14 Conclusion. Dare We Win? 33 min 15 Appendix I. What Do The Bourgeois Liberal Realists Praise The Social-Democratic Realists For? 25 min 16 Appendix II. Comrade Martynov Again Renders the Question More Profound 27 min 17 Appendix III. The Vulgar Bourgeois Representation of Dictatorship and Marx's View of It 30 min
