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

60THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.(“SECOND ALL-RUSSIAN”) 321DRAFT RESOLUTION ON PARTICIPATIONIN THE ELECTIONS TO THE THIRD DUMAWhereas,(1) active boycott, as the experience of the Russianrevolution has shown, is correct tactics on the part of theSocial-Democrats only under conditions of a sweeping,universal, and rapid upswing of the revolution, developinginto an armed uprising, and only in connection with theideological aims of the struggle against constitutionalillusions arising from the convocation of the first representativeassembly by the old regime;(2) in the absence of these conditions correct tacticson the part of the revolutionary Social-Democrats callsfor participation in the elections, as was the case with theSecond Duma, even if all the conditions of a revolutionaryperiod are present;(3) the Social-Democrats, who have always pointed outthe essentially Octobrist nature of the. Cadet Party andthe impermanence of the Cadet electoral law (11-XII-1905) under the autocracy, have no reasons whatever forchanging their tactics because this law has been replacedby an Octobrist electoral law;(4) the strike movement which is now developing in thecentral industrial region of Russia, while being a mostimportant guarantee of a possible revolutionary upswingin the near future, at the same time calls for sustainedefforts towards converting the movement, which so far isonly a trade-union one, into a political and directly revolutionarymovement linked with an armed uprising,the Conference resolves: