Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

142THESES FOR A REPORTAT THE OCTOBER 8 CONFERENCEOF THE PETROGRAD ORGANISATION,ALSO FOR A RESOLUTION AND INSTRUCTIONSTO THOSE ELECTED TO THE PARTY CONGRESS 65ON THE QUESTION OF THE PARTY’S PARTICIPATIONIN THE PRE-PARLIAMENT1. The participation of our Party in the Pre-parliament,in the Democratic Council, or in the Council of the Republicis an obvious error and a deviation from the proletarian revolutionarypath.2. The objective situation is such that a revolutionagainst Kerensky’s Bonapartist government is undoubtedlyfomenting in the country (peasant uprising, increasingdissatisfaction and conflicts with the government in thearmy and among non-Russian groups, conflict with railwayand postal employees, the resounding defeat of the Menshevikand Socialist-Revolutionary conciliators at the elections,etc.).At a time when there is such an upsurge of the revolution,to go to a sham parliament decked out to deceive the peopleis to facilitate this deception, make the preparation for therevolution more difficult, and distract the attention of thepeople and the forces of the Party from the urgent task ofthe struggle for power and for the overthrow of the government.3. The Party congress, therefore, must recall Party membersfrom the Pre-parliament, declare a boycott of it, appealto the people to prepare forces for dispersing this “BulyginDuma” of Tsereteli’s.