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

THE LIFE AND WORK OF V. I. LENIN593The government decides to send Lenin on a shortholiday.December 2(January 6,1918)December 24-27(January 6-9,1918)Lenin takes a holiday in Finland.While on holiday, Lenin writes the articles “Froma Publicist’s Diary (Topics for Elaboration)”“Fear of the Collapse of the Old and the Fightfor the New”; “How to Organise Competition?”;“Draft Decree on Consumers’ Communes”.1918January 1 (14)Lenin speaks at the Mikhailovsky Manège at thesend-off of the first troop trains of the socialistarmy. Lenin is unhurt when his car is shot at bycounter-revolutionary terrorists as he is leaving.Lenin reports to the government on the eventsof the day.Not laterthan January3 (16)January 3 (16)Lenin writes the “Declaration of Rights of theWorking and Exploited People”.Lenin writes a letter to the Army Congress onthe Demobilisation of the Army.Lenin telegraphs instructions to the Russian delegationat Brest-Litovsk to arrange an adjournmentof the peace conference and to return toPetrograd.January 5 (18)January 6 (19)Lenin attends a sitting of the Constituent Assembly;during a recess he attends a meeting of theCentral Committee to discuss tactics in respectof the Constituent Assembly; writes a draft declarationby the Bolsheviks on their withdrawalfrom the Assembly; talks with Bolshevik deputies;and speaks at a meeting of the Bolshevik groupto substantiate the Central Committee’s proposalfor a Bolshevik walk-out from the Assembly andtheir subsequent attitude.Lenin presides at a government meeting to discuss