Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

Written: June-July 1905

Published: First published as a pamphlet in Geneva, July 1905.

Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, 1962, Moscow, Volume 9, pp. 15-140.

Translated: Abraham Fineburg and Julius Katzer

Transcription: D. Walters and V. Kronick

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Two Tactics of Social-Democry in the Democratic Revolution was written by Lenin in Geneva, in June-July 1905. The book was published in late July 1905, by the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. It was twice republished in Russia in the same year, once by the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., and the second time by the Moscow Committee of the Party, this time in 10,000 copies.

The book was illegally distributed throughout the country—particularly in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Tiflis and Baku. On February 19, 1907 it was banned by the St. Petersburg Press Department, and on December 22 of the same year the St. Petersburg Court issued an injunction for its destruction.

In 1907 Lenin had Two Tactics published in the miscellany Twelve Years, supplementing the book with new notes. The material prepared by Lenin for this book, his plans, précis, and other notes, were published in Lenin Miscellany V, pp. 315-20, and XVI, pp. 151-56.