V. I. Lenin

THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE
AND HOW TO COMBAT IT



Published at the end
of October 1917 in pamphlet
form by Priboi Publishers

Published according to
the manuscript
 



From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974

First printing 1964
Second printing 1974

Vol. 25, pp. 323-69.

Translated from the Russian
Edited by Stephan Apresyan
and Jim Riordan


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (June 1997)


THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE AND HOW TO COMBAT IT

  

Famine Is Approaching .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Complete Government Inactivity .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Control Measures Are Known to All and Easy to Take  .   .
Nationalisation of the Banks .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Nationalisation of the Syndicates  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Abolition of Commercial Secrecy   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Compulsory Association   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Regulation of Consumption   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Government Disruption of the Work of the Democratic
  Organisations  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
Financial Collapse and Measures to Combat It.   .   .   .   .
Can We Go Forward If We Fear to Advance Towards
  Socialism?  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
The Struggle Against Economic Chaos -- and the War  .   .
The Revolutionary Democrats and the Revolutionary
  Proletariat  .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

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