Collected Works of V. I. Lenin Vol
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87 88 89 90 91 were exposed by Orjonikidze in a letter to the Editor published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 25, on December 8 (21), 1911. The entire work of convening the Party conference, held in January 1912, was carried out by the R.O.C., which had rallied all the illegal Party organisations in Russia. p. 121 This refers to the following facts: In October 1910 F. A. Golovin, a member of the Third Duma, announced that he was resigning his powers as a deputy, and short- ly afterwards took an active part in a railway concession. In March 1912 V. A. Maklakov, another member of the Third Duma, in spite of his status as a deputy, acted as defence counsel for Tagiyev, a big oil industrialist of Baku charged with manhandling Bebutov, an engineer employed by him. p. 130
By “political babes” Lenin means here the Bolshevik conciliators who had their little groups in Russia and abroad. The “seasoned diplomats” were the few liquidators grouped around Trotsky’s Vienna Pravda, and the Bund leaders. p. 133 Lenin is referring to the law of December 11 (24), 1905, on elec- tions to the Duma. That law divided the electorate into four curias —landowner (landlords), urban (the bourgeoisie), peasant and work- er. It granted the suffrage to persons who had reached the age of 25 years. With regard to the landowner and urban curias, it estab- lished property qualifications; in the peasant curia, only house- holders had the right of suffrage, and in the worker curia, only per- sons who had been working on their job for at least six months. The elections were unequal. One landlord vote equalled 3 capital- ist, 15 peasant and 45 workers’ votes. The law debarred from elec- tions women, agricultural workers, unskilled workers, handicrafts- men, students and servicemen. In the case of the worker curia, the suffrage was granted only to those in factories employing at least fifty male workers. Factories employing over a thousand workers elected one delegate for every full thousand. Elections wore multi- stage: two-stage for the landlords and capitalists, three-stage for the workers and four-stage for the peasants. For the law of June 3, 1907, see Note 43. p. 138
See Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Vol. II, Part Two. These propositions of Marx’s were set forth and explained by Lenin in “The Agrarian Question in Russia Towards the Close of the Nine- teenth Century” (see present edition, Vol. 15, pp. 139-42). p. 145
lished by the Warsaw Committee of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania from May to October 1906. Publication was resumed in 1912. The split among the Polish Social-Democrats in 1912 gave rise to two parallel Party committees. There were two Warsaw Committees and two newspapers bearing the same title of Gazeta Robotnicza, one of them being published by the supporters
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92 93 94 95 96 of the Executive Committee in Warsaw and the other by the oppositionist Warsaw Committee in Cracow. Lenin’s article “The Situation in the R.S.D.L.P. and the Immediate Tasks of the Party” was published in the Cracow Gazeta Robotnicza No. 15-16. For the split in the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania, see Lenin’s article “The Split Among the Polish Social-Demo- crats” (pp. 479-84 of this volume). p. 150 See Note 20. p. 152 This refers to the meeting which the liquidators held in Russia in the middle of January 1912. The meting was called on the initia- tive of the Bund and the Contra Committee of the Social-Democrat- ic Party of the Lettish Territory. It is known as the “Meeting of National Social-Democratic Organisations”. It was attended by two delegates from the Lettish Social-Democrats, two from the Bund, one from the Caucasian Regional Committee and one from the So- cial-Democracy of Poland and Lithuania (this last delegate was present only at the second sitting). The meeting set up an Organis- ing Committee for convening the Trotskyist-liquidationist August conference of 1912. p. 156
by the Executive Committee of the Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania from 1902 to 1918 (Zurich-Cracow-Warsaw- Berlin). Publication was suspended between 1914 and 1917. In all 195 issues appeared. p. 156
Lenin s note “A Reply to the Liquidators” was written for Pravda, the Editorial Board of which received it on July 11 (24), 1912. p. 156
St. Petersburg, was founded on the initiative of the St. Petersburg workers in April 1912. Its first issue appeared on April 22 (May 5), 1912.
Pravda was published with money collected by the workers. In 1912 the workers made 620 group contributions to the Bolshevik press, 2,181 in 1913 and 2,873 from January to May 1914. Among the correspondents of Pravda were advanced workers. In the course of one year alone the newspaper published more than 11,000 items by worker correspondents. Its circulation reached 40,000 to 60,000 copies daily. Lenin, who was abroad, guided Pravda and contributed to it almost every day. He gave directions to the editors and gathered the Party’s best writers round the newspaper. Pravda was a constant target of police persecution. In the first year of its existence it was confiscated 41 times; its editors were sued 36 times and hold in prison for a total of 47 2 months. During two years and three months the tsarist government closed down the newspaper eight times, but it continued to appear under different Yüklə 2,8 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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