Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It

Published: Published at the end of October 1917 in pamphlet form by by Priboi Publishers. Published according to the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 25, pages 323-369.
Translated:
Transcription\Markup: D. Walters and C. Farrell
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Contents

Famine Is Approaching 327
Complete Government Inactivity 329
Control Measures Are Known To All and Easy To Take 331
Nationalisation of the Banks 333
Nationalisation of the Syndicates 339
Abolition of Commercial Secrecy 342
Compulsory Association 346
Regulation of Consumption 350
Government Disruption of the Work of the Democratic Organisations 353
Financial Collapse and Measures To Combat It 357
Can We Go Forward If We Fear To Advance Towards Socialism? 360
The Struggle Against Economic Chaos—and the War 364
The Revolutionary Democrats and the Revolutionary Proletariat 367
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