Collected Works - Volume 9

The volume includes the historic Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution in which Lenin gave a classical criticism of the Mensheviks’ tactics and a masterly exposition of the Bolsheviks’ tactics, and enriched Marxism with a new theory of revolution. Chapter II of the epilogue to the book is published in toto for the first time after the manuscript, part of which was ound in 1940. The volume includes the following articles: “While the Proletariat Is Doing the Fighting the Bourgeoisie Is Stealing Towards Power”, “The Boycott of the Bulygin Duma, and Insurrection”, “In the Wake of the Monarchist Bourgeoisie, or in the Van of the Revolutionary Proletariat and Peasantry?”, “Playing at Parliamentarianism”, “From the Defensive to the Offensive”. In these articles Lenin defends the revolutionary tactics of the working class, gives advice on preparations for an insurrection, and exposes the false “democratism” of the liberal bourgeoisie and the conciliatory tactics of the Mensheviks.