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April Theses
Ten theses Lenin read in Petrograd on 17 April 1917, the day after he arrived.
- Dates
- 17 Apr 1917
- Also known as
- The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution
- Wikidata
- Q622099
In the theses Vladimir Lenin called for no support for the Russian Provisional Government and for a republic of Soviets. He wrote them down after arriving on the sealed train.
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followed from
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Lenin's sealed train
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Lenin first set out the programme the evening he arrived and read the theses out the next day.
author
- Vladimir Lenin 17 Apr 1917 Primary record 13
Timeline 2 dates
- 17 Apr 1917 April Theses
- 17 Apr 1917 Vladimir Lenin authored April Theses
Proof 3 sources
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The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (the April Theses), Marxists Internet Archive (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. 24, Progress Publishers), 20 Apr 1917.
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I did not arrive in Petrograd until the night of April 3, and therefore at the meeting on April 4, I could, of course, deliver the report on the tasks of the revolutionary proletariat only on my own behalf
I read them twice very slowly: first at a meeting of Bolsheviks and then at a meeting of both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
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Kronstadt and Petrograd in 1917, chapter IV: The April Days, Marxists Internet Archive (New Park Publications, 1982; translated by Brian Pearce), 1925.
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Comrade Lenin here first set forth his political programme, which he formulated next day in the famous theses of April 4.
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Reminiscences of Lenin (In Petrograd), Marxists Internet Archive (International Publishers, 1970; translated by Bernard Isaacs), 1970.
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Lenin expounded his views as to what had to be done in a number of theses
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