Speech at a Meeting at the Putilov Works May 25 (12), 1917 'Seizure of power by the workers and the peasants could solve our country’s most pressing problems'. (Brief newspaper report)
On the Question of Convening an International, So-Called Socialist Conference Jointly with the Social-Chauvinists 'Our Party will take no part either in the commission or in any joint conference with so-called socialist ministers who have gone over to their bourgeoisie.'published May 25 (12), 1917 in Pravda No. 55.
Nothing Has Changed Published: Pravda No. 54, May 24 (11), 1917.'What do you take the class-conscious workers and soldiers for? Or do you really regard them as “rebellious slaves”?'
An Open Letter to the Delegates to the All-Russia Congress of Peasants’ Deputies Published May 24 (11), 1917 in the newspaper Soldatskaya Pravda No. 19.
One of the Secret Treaties Published in Pravda No. 53, May 23 (10), 1917.'Soldiers and workers! You are told that you are defending “freedom” and the “revolution”! In reality you are defending the shady treaties of the tsar, which are concealed from you as one conceals a secret disease.'
A Regrettable Deviation From the Principles of Democracy 'Democracy will remain an idle deceitful phrase, or merely a half-measure, unless the entire people is given a chance immediately and unqualifiedly to learn how to handle arms.' Written May 23 (10), 1917; published in Pravda No. 55 May 25 (12).
The ''Virtual Armistice'' Published in Pravda No. 52, May 22 (9), 1917.Novaya Zhizn for May 7 publishes interviews with ministers of the ''new'' government. Prime Minister Lvov has declared that ''the country must have its weighty say and send its army into battle''.This is the sum and substance of the new government’s ''programme''. An offensive, an offensive, an offensive!
Mandate to Deputies of the Soviet Elected at Factories and Regiments Written before May 7 (20), 1917.
Already the “New” Government is Lagging Behind Even the Peasant Mass, Leave Alone the Revolutionary Workers Published in Pravda No. 50, May 19 (6), 1917.
A Strong Revolutionary Government "It will be a truly revolutionary government, the only one capable of showing the people that at a time when untold suffering is inflicted upon the masses it will not be awed and deterred by capitalist profits."
Class Collaboration With Capital, or Class Struggle Against Capital? Published in Pravda No. 50, May 19 (6), 1917.That is how history puts the issue—and not history in general, but the economic and political history of the Russia of today.The Narodniks and Mensheviks, Chernov and Tsereteli, have transferred the Contact Commission from the room adjacent to the one the ministers used to meet in to the ministerial chamber itself. This, and this alone, is the purely political significance of the “new” cabinet.
They Have Forgotten the Main Thing (The municipal platform of the proletarian party) Published in Pravda No. 49, May 18 (5), 1917.Elections to the district councils being close at hand, the two petty-bourgeois democratic parties, the Narodniks and the Mensheviks, have come out with high-sounding platforms.
Defence of Imperialism Cloaked with Deceptive Phrases Published in Pravda No. 47, May 16 (3), 1917.That is what the proclamation of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet to the socialists of the world, published in today’s papers, amounts to. It has a lot to say against imperialism, but all these words are nullified by a single little phrase which reads:“The Provisional Government of revolutionary Russia has adopted this platform” (i.e., peace without annexations and indemnities on the basis of self-determination of nations).
