Lenin CW-Vol. 23.pdf - From Marx to Mao

THE LIFE AND WORK OF V. I. LENIN427March 12 (25)Mid-MarchMarch 14 (27)March 17 (30)March 18 (31)March 22 (April9)March 26 (April8)March 27 (April9)March 27-30(April 9-12)March 31 (April13)Lenin writes the fourth “Letter from Afar”—“HowTo Achieve Peace” and the article “The Revolutionin Russia and the Tasks of the Workers of AllCountries”.Lenin writes the appeal “To Our Comrades inWar-Prisoner Camps”, published as a leaflet overthe signature of the Sotsial-Demokrat EditorialBoard.Lenin delivers a lecture at a meeting of Swissworkers in Zurich on “The Russian Revolution,Its Significance and Tasks”.FROM MARXabridged form, in Avanti! No. 99.TO MAOLenin writes “Tricks of the Republican Chauvinists”,published in Volksrecht No. 81 and, inCollegium Abroad of the R.S.D.L.P. Central⋆Committee approves Lenin’s draft of rules for theémigrés returning to Russia.Lenin attends a meeting in Zurich to discussorganisation of the journey to Russia.Lenin goes to Berne to sign the Protocol on thereturn journey from Switzerland to Russia.NOT FORCOMMERCIALDISTRIBUTIONLenin writes the fifth (unfinished) “Letter fromAfar”—“The Tasks Involved in the Building ofthe Revolutionary Proletarian State”.Lenin writes his “Farewell Letter to the SwissWorkers”, which is approved in Berne by a meetingof R.S.D.L.P. members returning to Russia.Lenin and Krupskaya leave Berne for Zurich,where they join a group of émigrés returning toRussia.During the journey Lenin works on his theseson the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution(the “April Theses”).En route to Russia, Lenin makes a one-day stopin Stockholm, attends a meeting of Swedish Social-Democrat internationalists, organises the BureauAbroad of the R.S.D.L.P. Central Committee.