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

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

    Given the large size (605k) of One Step Forward, Two
Steps Back, you can either download the entire file (if your
computer has sufficient RAM and your browser can handle it)
or each of the two separate sections into which I divided the
file for those with computers not capable of handling such a
large file. The following table of contents for One Step For-
ward, Two Steps Back will give you some idea of what is con-
tained in each section. Links to the endnotes for the material
in each of the two files are functional.




[Part 1 (290k)]
 

ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK (The Crisis in Our Party) .  .

203

  Preface .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

205

  A.

The Preparations for the Congress .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

209

B.

Significance of the Various Groupings at the Congress.  .

211

C.

Beginning of the Congress. The Organizing Committee
Incident.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .


214

D.

Dissolution of the Yuzhny Rabochy Group .  .  .  .  .  .  .

223

E.

The Equality of Languages Incident.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

226

F.

The Agrarian Program .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

233

G.

The Party Rules. Comrade Martov's Draft .  .  .  .  .  .  .

241

H.

Discussion on Centralism Prior to the Split among the
Iskra-ists.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .


250

I.

Paragraph One of the Rules .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

255

J.

Innocent Victums of a False Accusation of Opportunism .

278

K.

Continuation of the Debate on the Rules. Composition of
the Council  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .


289

L.

Conclusion of the Debate on the Rules. Co-optation to
the Central Bodies. Withdrawl of the Rabocheye Dyelo
Delegates .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .



294


[Part 2 (320k)]
 

M.

The Elections. End of the Congress .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

308

N.

General Picture of the Struggle at the Congress. The
Revolutionary and Opportunist Wings of the Party.  .  .  .


335

O.

After the Congress. Two Methods of Struggle.  .  .  .  .  .

349

P.

Little Annoyances Should Not Stand in the Way of a Big
Pleasure.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .


368

Q.

The New Iskra. Opportunism in Questions of Organisation

379

R.

A Few Words on Dialectics. Two Revolutions.  .  .  .  .  .

410

  Appendix  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .

416


NOTES




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