Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

First All-Russian Congress of Peasants’ Deputies^[1]

MAY 4–28 (MAY 17–JUNE 10), 1917

Published: [See end of sub-documents.].
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1964, Moscow, Volume 24, pages 481-505.
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

Notes

[1] The First All-Russia Congress of Peasants’ Deputies was held in Petrograd on May 4-28 (May 17-June 10), 1917. It was attended by 1,115 delegates from the provinces and army units. The Bolsheviks took an active part in the Congress proceedings, during which they exposed the imperialist policy of the bourgeois Provisional Government and the conciliatory policy of the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries. The Congress was dominated by the S.R.s, and this determined the nature of its decisions. The Congress approved the policy of the bourgeois Provisional Government and participation of “socialists” in that government. It went on record in favour of continuing the war “to the victorious end” and of launching an offensive at the front. The Congress declared against the immediate transfer of the landed estates to the peasants and postponed the land question pending the convocation of the Constituent Assembly.