Mandate to Deputies of the Soviet Elected at Factories and Regiments Written before May 7 (20), 1917.
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).
A Turn in World Politics Written in January 1917, Lenin analyses the cynical imperialist manoeuvres behind World War One and puts forward the proletarian revolutionary alternative as the only way out of the impasse for the working class.
