Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Draft Resolution for the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) Plenum

Decision of C.C. (29.XI.1919)

Written: November 29, 1919
Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, 2nd English Edition, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 42, pages 150^b-151^a.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters
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Chicherin to draw up detailed theses for a brief report to the Congress of Soviets on peace and the text of a declaration by the congress.^[1] This text to contain a direct proposal of peace and peace negotiations without mentioning terms (such a variant to be submitted as will confirm all previous peace proposals, but without committing us).

Notes

[1] G. V. Chicherin’s report on the international situation was delivered to the Eighth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.). The conference adopted the resolution on the international situation drafted by Lenin. In his report on the activities of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars to the Seventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets Lenin proposed this resolution as a draft resolution of the congress (see present edition, Vol. 30, p. 231). It was unanimously adopted by the congress as a peace proposal to the countries of the Entente.