Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Victory of the Cadets and the Tasks of the Workers’ Party


Written: Written on March 24-28 (April 6-10), 1906
Published: Published in pamphlet form in April 1906 by Nasha Mysl Publishers. Published according to the pamphlet text.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1965, Moscow, Volume 10, pages 199-276.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein.
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2004). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.


Contents

I. What Was the Objective Significance of Our Participation in the Duma Elections? 201
II. The Social and Political Significance of the First Elections 210
III. What is the Party of People’s Freedom? 214
IV. The Role and Significance of a Cadet Duma 222
V. A Sample of Cadet Smugness 238
Digression. A Popular Talk With Cadet Publicists and Learned Professors 242
VI. Conclusion 270