Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland on April 16, 1917 and the following day presented what is now known as his ‘April Theses’ to Bolshevik members of the All-Russian Soviet, included here. He also wrote an elaboration of his ‘Letters from Afar’ (see Little Lenin Library Vol. 8.) to reorient the Bolsheviks after the fall of the Czar forming the main body of this pamphlet, ‘The Tasks of The Proletariat in Our Revolution.’ Facing resistance on his call that the revolution now become a proletarian one from leaders like Kamanev and Zinoviev, in repsonse he wrote ‘Letters on Tactics’. Combined these form Volume Nine of the Little Lenin Library.

The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution by V.I. Lenin. Little Lenin Library No. 9. International Publishers, New York. 1932.

Contents: Introduction by Alexander Trachtenberg, I) The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution -Draft Platform for the Proletarian Party, The Class Character of the Revolution That Has Taken Place, The Foreign Policies of the New Government, Unique Dual Power and Its Class Meaning, The Peculiarity of the Tactics Following from the Above, Revolutionary Defencism and Its Class Meaning, How the War Can Be Ended, The New Type of State Arising in Our Revolution, The Agrarian and National Programmes, Nationalisation of the Banks and Capitalist Syndicates, The State of Affairs in the Socialist International, The Breakdown of the Zimmerwald International – The Necessity of Founding a Third International, A Name for Our Party which Would Be Scientifically Sound and Conducive to Proletarian Class Thinking (April 23, 1917) II) The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April 20, 1917), III) Letters on Tactics, Foreword, The Present Situation (April, 1917).

In all there would be 40 volumes of the Little Lenin Library. It began in 1930 and was edited by Alexander Trachtenberg, published by the Communist Party’s International Publishers in conjunction with the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of Moscow. Many of the volumes went through different editions.

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