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 V. I. Lenin

ONE STEP FORWARD,
TWO STEPS BACK

(THE CRISIS IN OUR PARTY)

Written in February-May 1904 Published in book form in Geneva, May 1904

Published according to the book text after collation with the manuscript and with the text of the collection Vl. Ilyin, Twelve Years, 1907

From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965

Second Edition  Vol. 7, pp. 203-425.

Translated by Abraham Fineberg and by Naomi Jochel Edited by Clemens Dutt

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Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,djr@marx2mao.org (May 1997)
(Corrected and Updated December 2001)

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK (The Crisis in Our Party) .  .
Preface .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
A.	The Preparations for the Congress .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
B.	Significance of the Various Groupings at the Congress.  .
C.	Beginning of the Congress. The Organizing CommitteeIncident.  .  .  .  .  .
D.	Dissolution of the Yuzhny Rabochy Group .  .  .  .  .  .  .
E.	The Equality of Languages Incident.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
F.	The Agrarian Program .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
G.	The Party Rules. Comrade Martov's Draft .  .  .  .  .  .  .
H.	Discussion on Centralism Prior to the Split among the Iskra-ists.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
I.	Paragraph One of the Rules .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
J.	Innocent Victims of a False Accusation of Opportunism .
K.	Continuation of the Debate on the Rules. Composition ofthe Council  .  .  .  .  .  .
L.	Conclusion of the Debate on the Rules. Co-optation to the Central Bodies. Withdrawl of the Rabocheye Dyelo Delegates .  .
M.	The Elections. End of the Congress .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
N.	General Picture of the Struggle at the Congress. The Revolutionary and Opportunist Wings of the Party.  .  .  .
O.	After the Congress. Two Methods of Struggle.  .  .  .  .  .
P.	Little Annoyances Should Not Stand in the Way of a BigPleasure.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
Q.	The New Iskra. Opportunism in Questions of Organisation
R.	A Few Words on Dialectics. Two Revolutions.  .  .  .  .  .
Appendix  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
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