V. I. Lenin

The Seventh (April) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (B.)

APRIL 24–29 (MAY 7–12), 1917


 

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PROPOSAL FOR LINES OF DEBATE ON V.P. NOGIN’S REPORT ON “ATTITUDE TO THE SOVIETS OF WORKERS’ AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIES”
APRIL 25 (MAY 8)

It is proposed that speakers concentrate on replies to specific questions for working out a general Party platform. Questions: 1) militia, 2) working hours, 3) wages, 4) increase and decrease of production, 5) have there been any removals of management? how and from whom is it organised? 6) single or dual power, 7) elements reducing revolutionary Man, 8) disarmament of the bourgeoisie, 9) food supplies, 10) = ....{1}

Additional: 1) are the Soviets being transformed into Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies? 2) their role in connection with the state-wide Soviet.

First published in 1934 in the book Sedmaya (Aprelskaya) Vserossiiskaya i Petrogradskaya obshchegorodskaya konferentsii R.S.D.R.P.(B.). Aprel 1917 goda Printed from a typewritten copy of the minutes
 

Notes

{1} Hiatus in the minutes.—Ed.

  SPEECH ON THE PLAN TO CONVENE AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONFERENCE APRIL 25 (MAY 8) | SPEECH ON THE ATTITUDE TO THE SOVIETS OF WORKERS’ AND SOLDIERS’ DEPUTIES APRIL 25 (MAY 8)  

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