Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

13PREFACEVolume Thirteen contains works written by Lenin betweenJune 1907 and April 1908.The articles “Against Boycott”, “Notes of a Publicist”,“Revolution and Counter-Revolution”, “The Third Duma”,“Political Notes”, and “The New Agrarian Policy” are devotedto an analysis and appraisal of the political situationin Russia after the defeat of the first revolution and todefining the tasks of the Party organisations during theperiod of reaction. In these articles, as well as in thespeeches delivered at the St. Petersburg and All-Russianconferences of the R.S.D.L.P., which are published in thisvolume, Lenin also formulated the aims of the Duma tacticsof the Bolsheviks at that new stage.The volume includes such important works of Lenin onthe agrarian question as The Agrarian Question and the“Critics of Marx” (Chapters X-XII) and The Agrarian Programmeof Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution,1905-1907.Included in the volume is the Preface to the first, threevolumecollection of Lenin’s writings, entitled TwelveYears, which was not published in full owing to persecutionby the censorship. The Preface is a short review of thehistory of Lenin’s struggle for revolutionary Marxismagainst liberalism and opportunism.The volume contains the article “Trade-Union Neutrality”in which Lenin criticises the opportunism of Plekhanovand the Mensheviks, who attempted to make the labourmovement in Russia take the path of trade-unionism.Two articles under the same title “The InternationalSocialist Congress in Stuttgart” reflect the struggle waged