Honest Defencism Reveals Itself Pravda No. 38, May 5 (April 22), 1917.Events in Petrograd during the last few days, especially yesterday, illustrate how right we were in speaking of the “honest” defencism of the mass as distinguished from the defencism of the leaders and parties.
Notes for an Article or Speech in Defence of the April Theses A brief note by Lenin on his April Theses.(1) Economic debacle is imminent. Therefore removal of the bourgeoisie is a mistake.(This is the conclusion of the bourgeoisie. The more imminent the debacle, the more essential is it that the bourgeoisie be removed.)(2) Proletariat is unorganised, weak, lacking class-consciousness.
'The Last of the Tsars' - a dull, anti-Bolshevik smear On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, for those interested in understanding the causes, events and consequences of October 1917, there are dozens of books and articles to get stuck into. The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service, is not one of them.
