April 12 (25)-April 27 (May 10), 1905
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Draft Resolution of the Armed Uprising
The Congress holds, on the basis of the practical experiences of the
functionaries and on the basis of the mood of the working-class masses, that
preparations for the uprising imply, not only the preparation of weapons, the
formation of groups, etc., but also the accumulation of experience by means of
practical attempts at separate armed actions, such as attacks by armed squads on
the police and on troops during public meetings, or on prisons, government
offices, etc. While fully relying on the local Party centres and on the C.C. to
determine the limits of such actions and the most convenient occasions for them,
while fully relying on the comrades’ discretion in avoiding a useless
expenditure of effort on petty acts of terror, the Congress draws the attention
of all Party organisations to the need for taking into consideration the
above-mentioned facts of experience.
| Written at the end of April 1905 |
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| First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVI |
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| Published according to the manuscript |
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