Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution

(Draft Platform for the Proletarian Party)

Published: First published September 1917 as a pamphlet by Priboi Publishers. Signed: N. Lenin. Published according to the pamphlet text.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1964, Moscow, Volume 24, pages 55-92.
Translated: Isaacs Bernard
Transcription\Markup: B. Baggins and D. Walters
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive 1999 (2005). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.

Contents

THE CLASS CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTLON THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE 57
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT 58
THE PECULIAR NATURE OF THE DUAL POWER AND ITS CLASS SIGNIFICANCE 60
THE PECULIAR NATURE OF THE TACTICS WHICH FOLLOW FROM THE ABOVE 62
REVOLUTIONARY DEFENCISM AND ITS CLASS SIGNIFICANCE 64
HOW CAN THE WAR BE ENDED? 66
A NEW TYPE OF STATE EMERGING FROM OUR REVOLUTION 67
THE AGRARIAN AND NATIONAL PROGRAMMES 71
NATIONALISATION OF THE BANKS AND CAPITALIST SYNDICATES 73
THE SITUATION WITHIN THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL 74
THE COLLAPSE OF THE ZIMMERWALD INTERNATIONAL.— THE NEED FOR FOUNDING A THIRD INTERNATIONAL 80
WHAT SHOULD BE THE NAME OF OUR PARTY—ONE THAT WILL BE CORRECT SCIENTIFICALLY AND HELP TO CLARIFY THE MIND OF THE PROLETARIAT POLITICALLY? 84
POSTSCRIPT 89
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