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Party Conference re-elected Lenin to the Bureau as representing
the R.S.D.L.P. On the Bureau Lenin fought resolutely against
the opportunism of the leaders of the Second International. The
Bureau ceased to function in 1914.
p. 245
This refers to the investigation of Russia’s factories carried out by
the Industrial Department of the Ministry of Finance in 1908.
Preliminary data on the results of the investigation were pub-
lished by V. Y. Varzar in an article “The Manufacturing Industry
of the Empire at the Beginning of 1909” in Vestnik Finansov, Pro-
myshlennosti i Torgovli No. 50, on December 11 (24), 1911. Lenin
cited data from the summary table in that article.
p. 256
This refers to A Summary of Factory Inspectors’ Reports for 1910,
St.
Petersburg, 1911, p. XXXVII.
p. 258
Lenin is referring to the miners’ strike in the spring of 1912, which
involved about a million miners. See pp. 467-68 of this volume for
details.
p. 270
Lenin took the figures from
A Summary of Factory Inspectors’
Reports for 1910, St. Petersburg, 1911, p. XV.
p. 272
Rossiya (
Russia)—a reactionary, Black-Hundred daily published
in St. Petersburg from 1905 to 1914. From 1906 it was the official
organ of the Ministry of the Interior.
p. 281
The
Bulygin Duma—an advisory “representative institution” which
the tsarist government promised to convene in 1905. The Bill to
establish an advisory Duma, and the Regulations on elections to
the Duma were drafted by a commission under Bulygin, Minister
of the Interior, and made public on August 6 (19), 1905. The Bol-
sheviks proclaimed and carried out an active boycott of the Bulygin
Duma. The government was unable to convene it, and the October
general political strike swept it out of existence.
p. 286
Pravda appended to the article “The Liquidators and ‘Unity’” a
critical survey of the charges made against the newspaper by the
liquidators. This section of the article was written by M. S. Olmin-
sky.
p. 290
Oblomov—the chief character in Ivan Goncharov’s novel of that
name. He was a personification of routine, stagnation and iner-
tia.
p. 293
Zemshchina (
Land Affairs)—a Black-Hundred daily newspaper,
the organ of the Right-wing members of the Duma, published in
St. Petersburg from 1909 to 1917.
p. 298
The
sapient minnow personifies the craven philistine in M. Salty-
kov-Shchedrin’s fairy-tale of that name.
p. 308
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Adherents of the old rites—followers of a Russian religious move-
ment against the official Orthodox Church. The movement arose
in the mid-seventeenth century following the alteration of church
rites by Patriarch Nicon. In tsarist times it was subjected to per-
secution.
p. 311
Russkaya Mysl (
Russian Thought)—a liberal bourgeois monthly
published in Moscow from 1880 to the middle of 1918. After the
revolution of 1905 it became the organ of the Right wing of the Ca-
det Party. At that time Lenin called it Chernosotennaya Mysl
(Black-Hundred Thought).
p. 312
Lenin is quoting from Nekrasov’s poem,
Who Can Be Happy in
Russia?
The quatrain quoted in the text further on is taken from Nekra-
sov’s “To the Unknown Friend Who Has Sent Me the Poem ‘It
Cannot Be’”.
p. 313
This refers to the “Letter to Gogol”, dated July 3, 1847, in which
V. G. Belinsky most vividly expressed his revolutionary-democratic
ideas. Lenin described the “Letter” as “one of the finest productions
of the illegal, democratic press” (see present edition, Vol. 20,
p. 313
Lenin borrowed the phrase “
conformably to villainy” from “The
Liberal”, a satirical fairy-tale by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin.
p. 314
Zubatovism—the policy of “police socialism”, so named after
Colonel Zubatov, chief of the Moscow Secret Police, on whose initia-
tive legal workers’ organisations were formed in 1901-03 to divert
the workers from the political struggle against the autoc-
racy. Zubatov’s activity in this field was supported by V. K.
Plehve, Minister of the Interior. The Zubatovists sought to direct
the working-class movement into the narrow channel of purely eco-
nomic demands, and suggested to the workers that the govern-
ment was willing to meet those demands. The first Zubatovist
organisation—the Society for Mutual Assistance of Mechanical
Industry Workers—was set up in Moscow in May 1901. Similar
organisations were founded in Minsk, Odessa, Vilna, Kiev and
other cities.
The revolutionary Social-Democrats, in exposing the reaction-
ary character of Zubatovism, used legal workers’ organisations
to draw large sections of the working class into the struggle against
the autocracy. The growing revolutionary movement in 1903 cam-
pelled the tsarist government to abolish the Zubatovist organisa-
tions.
p. 315
Judas Golovlyov—a sanctimonious, hypocritical, serf-owning land-
lord portrayed in M. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlyov Family.
p. 316
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