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Summary
These were Lenin’s manifesto when he returned to Petrograd
in April 1917.
They are often summed up as “Peace, Bread , Land and All Power to the Soviets!”
The April Theses
You can read the full text
of the Theses
here.
Lenin:
1. condemned the “predatory imperialist war” and urged the proletariat to withdraw all support for it;
2. claimed that the revolution needed to pass to “its second stage, which must place power in the hands of the proletariat”;
3. condemned the Provisional Government as “a government of capitalists”;
4. realised that the Bolsheviks were in a minority and called for:
5. “a republic of Soviets of Workers’, Agricultural Labourers’ and Peasants’ Deputies”;
6. the nationalisation of all land;
7. the nationalisation of the banks;
8. to bring all production under the control of the Soviets of Workers’ Deputies;
9. a Party Congress to change the Party name to the
'Communist Party';
10. the setting up of a Communist International.
After a heated discussion, the Theses were accepted as the Party’s policy.
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