April Theses
4월 테제
A ten-point program of action presented by Lenin to the Bolshevik Party in April 1917 immediately after his return to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland. It demanded no support for the Provisional Government, the transfer of 'all power to the soviets,' immediate withdrawal from the imperialist war, nationalization of land and unification of banks, and renaming the party the Communist Party, declaring that the bourgeois-democratic stage of the revolution was complete and a transition to the socialist stage must begin. Adopted by majority vote at the VII All-Russian Party Conference (April), it became the Bolsheviks' official line and the starting point of the strategic reorientation that led to the July Days and the October Revolution.
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- Wikipedia (EN) Full content of the ten theses, background of Lenin's return by sealed train, the intra-party debate, and adoption at the VII All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP(b).
- Wikipedia (RU) Russian-language article with detailed account of the theses' reception, the resistance from Kamenev and the Petrograd Bolshevik leadership, and the process by which they became party policy.
- Marxists Internet Archive Primary text: Lenin's 'The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution,' published in Pravda on April 7, 1917, containing the full April Theses.
- britannica.com Britannica entry confirming the theses' role in the July Days and October Revolution, the initial rejection by the Bolshevik committee, and subsequent adoption at the April conference.