Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

This book, which appeared in July 1905, lays down the tactical line of Bolsheviks in 1905 Revolution in opposition to the line of the Mensheviks. It deals with the role of the working class in taking the lead in the bourgeois revolution and passing from the bourgeois revolution to the socialist revolution. The Mensheviks, on the other hand, held that the liberal bourgeois must be the leader of bourgeois revolution; that the worker should establish close relation, not with the peasantry, but with the liberal bourgeoisie; and that if it proved possible to set up a provisional revolutionary government, this…