V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905


 

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SPEECH ON THE QUESTION OF THE ATTITUDE TO THE LIBERALS

APRIL 23 (MAY 6)

It is inappropriate to raise the question of agreements with the liberals. Things in Russia have reached the point of an uprising, and in such conditions an agreement is highly unlikely. Even if some Osvobozhdeniye groups or liberal-minded students willing to act arms in hand are to be found, we really cannot conclude an agreement with a man like Struve.

Adds to Comrade Voinov’s report on the Zemstvo congress in Moscow (quotes The Times).{1}

Trety ocherednoi syezd R.S.D.R.P. Polny tekst protokolov, Central Committee publication, Geneva, 1905
Printed from the text of the book

Notes

{1} In addition to what A. V. Lunacharsky (Voinov) said, Lenin quoted a Moscow report which appeared in The Times No. 37700 on May 6, 1905, under the title “Zemstvo Congress at Moscow. Purposes and Prospects”.

On the Zemstvo congress in Moscow see Lenin’s article “The Advice of the Conservative Bourgeoisie” (present edition, Vol. 8, pp. 457–60).

The Times—a daily founded in London in 1785; one of the leading conservative papers of the British bourgeoisie. p. 163

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