Collected Works of V. I. Lenin Vol
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titles: Rabochaya Pravda, Severnaya Pravda, Pravda Truda, Za Pravdu, Proletarskaya Pravda, Put Pravdy, Rabochy, and Trudo- vaya Pravda. It was closed down again on July 8 (21), 1914, shortly before the beginning of the First World War. Publication was not resumed until after the February Revolu- tion of 1917. On March 5 (18), 1917, Pravda began to appear as the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.). Upon his return from abroad on April 5 (18), Lenin became a member of the Editorial Board and assumed the leadership of the newspaper. Between July and October 1917 Pravda, being persecuted by the Provisional Government, had to change its title four times—to Listok Pravdy,
ber 9) onwards it appeared under its old title of Pravda. p. 158 This refers to the resolution of the Board of the St. Petersburg Bak- ers’ Union in favour of the publication of an anti-liquidationist workers’ daily. The Board hailed the forthcoming publication of Pravda and called on the membership to collect money for the fu- ture newspaper. A report on the resolution appeared in Zvezda No. 27, on April 8 (21), 1912. p. 175
Zavety (Behests)—a literary and political monthly of a So- cialist-Revolutionary trend, published legally in St. Petersburg from 1912 to 1914. p. 181
The allusion is to the following lines from Alexander Pushkin’s poem “The Hero”: I treasure deceit that uplifts us Above a myriad low truisms. p. 183
This refers to the rebellion which the Portuguese monarchists launched in the summer of 1912 to restore the monarchy. The rebellion was put down. p. 183
The article “The Results of Six Months’ Work” was written in the first half of July 1912. Lenin’s correspondence with Pravda concern- ing the publication of this article survived. In one of his letters to Pravda, Lenin asked the editors to print the article in four in- stalments, as separate feature articles, and agreed only to correc- tions made for censorship reasons. The article was published in the form suggested by Lenin. p. 187
Lenin is referring to the Menshevik liquidators’ threat to nominate their own candidates at the Fourth Duma election for the worker curia as a counter to the Bolshevik candidates. p. 197
Appeal to Reason—a newspaper published by the American Social- ists, founded in Girard, Kansas, in 1895. It had no official connec- tion with the American Socialist Party but propagated socialist ideas and was very popular among the workers. Among those who wrote for it was Eugene Debs. p. 201
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Gazeta-Kopeika (Kopek Newspaper)—a bourgeois daily of the yel- low press type, published in St. Petersburg from 1908. It was closed down in 1918. p. 202
The pamphlet The Present Situation in the R.S.D.L.P., written by Lenin in Cracow, was first published in the German language in Leipzig in September 1912. Its main point is the letter of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. written on July 16-17 (29-30). The letter was a reply to the appeal of the Executive of the German Social-Demo- cratic Party on the convening of the R.S.D.L.P. “centres” and “groups” abroad to distribute the funds which the leadership of the German Social-Democratic Party had allotted for the Fourth Duma election campaign. The C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. refused to participate in the meeting, and the meeting did not take place. The Executive of the German Social-Democrats assigned part of the funds to the liquidators’ Organising Committee and Caucasian Regional Committee, to the Bund and to the Central Committee of the Lettish Social-Democratic Party, thereby backing the liquidators against the Bolsheviks. The pamphlet Con-
the editors of Sotsial-Demokrat to the regional and district centres of the German Social-Democratic Party, the delegates of the Party Congress held in Chemnitz in September 1912, and the editors of the major Social-Democratic newspapers of Germany. p. 203
The phrase “Potemkin villages” was coined in the first quarter of the nineteenth century to denote a sham facade of prosperity. Dur- ing Catherine II’s journey to the South in 1878 G. A. Potemkin, Governor-General of the Yekaterinoslav Vicegerency, created an impression of exceptional prosperity by having decorative vil- lages, arches, etc., built and parks laid out along the route of the Empress. p. 206
The Spilka (Ukrainian Social-Democratic Union) arose late in 1904 having broken away from the petty-bourgeois, nationalist Revolutionary-Ukrainian Party. It entered the R.S.D.L.P. as an autonomous regional organisation. In the inner-Party struggle of the R.S.D.L.P. it sided with the Mensheviks. It broke up in the period of reaction. In 1912 there were only small disconnected groups of the Spilka and by then most of its members had become bourgeois nationalists. Trotsky’s liquidationist Pravda (Vienna) was published as an organ of the Spilka only in October and Decem- ber 1908 (the first two issues). p. 207 The Ninth International Socialist Congress of the Second Inter- national was to meet in Vienna in the autumn of 1913, but the war which broke out in the Balkans in 1912 and the threat of a world war prompted the International Socialist Bureau to convene an extraordinary congress in Basle on November 24-25, 1912. p. 216 This refers to the August conference of the liquidators, which met in Vienna in August 1912 and formed the anti-Party August bloc. Yüklə 2,8 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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