Newspaper Report:

The old traditional formulas (dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry) no longer meet the changed conditions. A revolutionary-democratic dictatorship has been established but not in the form we envisaged: it is inter locked with the dictatorship of the imperialist bourgeoisie. The imperialist war has confused everything, turning the rabid opponents of the revolution—the Anglo-French capitalists—into supporters of the revolution for victory (the same applies to the lop army command and counter revolutionary bourgeoisie).

"We have to speak to the millions; we must draw fresh forces from among the masses, we must call for more developed class-conscious workers who would popularise our theses in a way the masses would understand."

The below interview was first published in Työmies No. 122, May 8, 1917 and was published in Russian in 1926 in N. Lenin (V. Ulyanov), Works, Vol. XX, Part 2.

"We are decidedly against all imperialist wars and all bourgeois governments waging such wars, including our own Provisional Government; we are decidedly against “revolutionary defencism” in Russia."

Written May 5 (April 22), 1917.

Written April 22 (May 5), 1917.

Written April 22 (May 5), 1917.

Pravda No. 38, May 5 (April 22), 1917.

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.

Pravda No. 38, May 5 (April 22), 1917.

This resolution was adopted on the Morning of May 5 (April 22) and was published in Pravda on May 6 (April 23), 1917.

Written April 21 (May 4), 1917.

Published in Pravda No. 37, May 4 (April 21), 1917.

Published in Pravda No. 37, May 4 (April 21), 1917.

Pravda No. 37, May 4 (April 21), 1917.