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Russky Vestnik (
The Russian Herald)—a political and literary
periodical published between 1856 and 1906. From 1856 to 1887
it was issued in Moscow, with M. N. Katkov as its editor and pub-
lisher. Originally it had a liberal trend but in the 1860s it became
an organ of feudal reaction. After Katkov’s death it was issued in
St. Petersburg from 1888 to 1896, in Moscow from 1896 to 1902,
and again in St. Petersburg from 1902 to 1906.
p. 317
See Note 87.
p. 320
The first quotation is taken from Frederick Engels’s
The Berlin
Debates on the Revolution and the second from Karl Marx’s
The
Bill for the Abolition of Feudal Labour Services (see Karl Marx,
Friedrich Engels, Werke, Band 5, Berlin. Dietz Verlag, 1959).
p. 331
See Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx and Engels,
Selected Works, Moscow, 1958, Vol. II, p. 33).
p. 343
This refers to the following fact:
A. A. Voiloshnikov, a member of the Social-Democratic group
in the Third Duma, speaking on December 2 (15), 1911, at the
Thirty-Fifth Sitting of the Duma in the debate on the Bill to amend
the Rules on Military Service, described the tsarist army as a po-
lice force and called for the standing army to be replaced by the
arming of the whole people. On account of this speech the Chair-
man of the Duma moved that Voiloshnikov be excluded from the
next five sittings. Following Voiloshnikov’s second speech at
the same sitting the period of exclusion was increased to fifteen
sittings. The Cadets voted for the original motion of the Chairman.
p. 346
Said by Liza, the maid, in Alexander Griboyedov’s comedy
Wit
Works Woe.
p. 349
Milyukov met Sazonov, Minister of the Interior, in September 1912
to discuss the Balkan policy of the tsarist government.
p. 351
The expression is taken from the letter appraising the Paris Cam-
mune which Karl Marx wrote to L. Kugelmann on April 12, 1871
(Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1958, Vol. II, p. 463).
p. 356
Lenin is quoting from Frederick Engels’s preface to the first Ger
man edition of Karl Marx’s
The Poverty of Philosophy (Foreign
Languages Publishing House, Moscow, pp. 12-13).
p. 357
The reference is to the battle in the Mukden area in February 1905,
the last major land engagement of the Russo-Japanese war of
1904-05. The Russians lost about 89,000 men, and the Japanese
about 71,000.
p. 372
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Dyelo Zhizni (
Life’
s Cause)—a legal periodical published by the
Menshevik liquidators in St. Petersburg from January to October
1911. Nine issues appeared.
p. 395
The Polish Social-Democrats’ “
territorial conference” met on Au-
gust 11-17 (N.S.), 1912. All the participants were supporters of
the Executive Committee of the Social-Democratic Party of the
Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (Zarzadists), which took a con-
ciliatory position in regard to the liquidators and opposed the Roz-
lamists, who upheld the Bolshevik standpoint. The Conference
approved the activities of the Executive and resolved to dissolve
the Party organisations that supported the Rozlamists. It declared
for a tactical agreement with the Bund and the Left wing of the
P.S.P. in the Fourth Duma elections. It also adopted a decision—
analysed in this article—concerning the attitude of the Polish
Social-Democrats to the R.S.D.L.P.
p. 405
In 1608 Russia was invaded by Polish interventionist troops under
Dmitry II the Impostor, an agent of the Polish feudal lords (he was
made out to be the youngest son of Tsar Ivan the Terrible). The in-
vaders drew near Moscow and camped in the village of Tushino.
The Impostor formed a government with its own Court as a counter
to the Moscow government. Some of the Russian noblemen and bo-
yars deserted alternately to the Moscow and the Tushino govern-
ments in an effort to safeguard themselves in the event of the vic-
tory of either side. It was those deserters that were nicknamed
“Tushino turncoats”.
p. 408
Luch (
The Ray)—a legal daily newspaper published by the Menshe-
vik liquidators in St. Petersburg from September 16 (29), 1912, to
July 5 (18), 1913. In all, 237 issues appeared. The newspaper was
supported chiefly by donations from the liberals. Ideologically it
was directed by P. B. Axelrod, F. I. Dan, L. Martov and A. S. Mar-
tynov. The liquidators used it to oppose the Bolshevik’s revolution-
ary tactics. They advocated the opportunist slogan of founding a
so-called open party, opposed revolutionary mass strikes, and
sought to revise the major provisions of the Party Programme.
Lenin wrote that “Luch has been enslaved by a liberal policy”
and called it a renegade organ.
p. 410
The term “
Austrian”
federation refers to the Austrian Social-Demo-
cratic Party’s organisation on the national principle. The Vienna
Party Congress in 1897 abolished the united party, and replaced
it by a federation of six national “Social-Democratic groups”:
German, Czech Polish, Ruthenian, Italian and South Slav. These
groups were all united by a joint congress and a common Central
Executive. The Brünn Congress in 1899 reorganised the Central
Executive into a federal body composed of the executive commit-
tees of the national Social-Democratic parties. Organisational fed-
eralism resulted in the break-up of the integral Social-Democratic
Party of Austria.
p. 412
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