num_pages: 590
description: Volume Thirty contains Lenins speeches and writings for the period between September 1919 and April 1920  the period when foreign armed intervention and the Civil War had reached their peak and were followed by a temporary lull after the defeat of Kolchak and Denikin.These speeches and articles demonstrate the great variety of the work done by Lenin in guiding the activities of the Bolshevik Party and the Soviet state.Most of the speeches reports and articles deal with questions of the defence of the socialist fatherland the organisation of the Soviet state and the consolidation of the ranks of the Bolshevik Party. A considerable part of the volume however consists of Lenins speeches at non-party conferences of workers and Red Army soldiers at congresses of the trade unions of water transport workers miners and textile workers and at a congress of working Cossacks. These are speeches addressed to the people in which Lenin appealed for the greater unity of the people at home and the army at the front for support for the Red Army and for active participation in the work of restoring the economy and in the government of the country. Lenins writings inculcated upon the masses a spirit of staunchness heroism self-sacrifice and iron discipline and infused in them faith in their own strength and in victory.In several of the articles in this volume Lenin develops the theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat as an instrument for the organisation of socialist society. Lenin compares Soviet democracy to false bourgeois democracy; he exposes the West-European socialists the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries as traitors to socialism and lackeys of imperialism for defending the dictatorship of the imperialist bourgeoisie under the flag of pure democracy.
language: English
title: Collected Works, Volume 30: September 1919-April 1920
publisher: Progress Publishers