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Jagiello,
J. I.—a member of the Polish Socialist Party (P.S.P.)
was elected deputy for Warsaw to the Fourth Duma. The Bolshe-
viks strongly objected to Jagiello’s admission into the Social-
Democratic group because he had been elected to the Duma thanks
to the support of the bourgeoisie and the bloc of the P.S.P. and the
Bund. When the issue was first put to the vote, the group split,
six Menshevik deputies voting for and six Bolshevik deputies
against Jagiello. With the arrival of the Right Menshevik Man-
kov deputy for Irkutsk, the Mensheviks gained a majority and
Jagiello was admitted into the group. But under pressure from the
Bolshevik deputies his rights within the group were restricted:
he was granted a voice but no vote on all inner-Party questions. p. 427
Dyen (
The Day)—a name given to the newspaper
Pravda to evade
the censor.
p. 427
There is an omission in the text of the document. The Collegium
was the Bolshevik section of the Social-Democratic group in the
Fourth Duma.
p. 427
Several words are missing in the letter. “P.”—N. G. Poletayev, a
Bolshevik member of the Third Duma. The liquidationist “M.”—
apparently Y. Mayevsky (a pseudonym of V. A. Gutovsky), one of
the contributors to the liquidationist Luch.
p. 42 9
The delegates from the worker curia of St. Petersburg Gubernia
for the Fourth Duma met on October 5 (18), 1912, with 50 delegates
present. Of the six electors elected by the delegates, four were Bol-
sheviks.
The tsarist government was afraid that the Social-Democrats
might win in the worker curia and therefore it cancelled the elec-
tion of delegates in twenty-one St. Petersburg factories. In reply,
the St. Petersburg Committee of the Bolsheviks called on the work-
ers for a one-day political strike. The strike involved about 100,000
workers. The government had to give in and announced supplemen-
tary elections. At all the factories where these elections were held
the workers adopted a “Mandate of the St. Petersburg Workers to
Their Workers’ Deputy”. On October 17 (30) the Mandate was
passed by a new gubernia meeting. But during the second election
of electors the vote was not taken by platforms, with the result that
three Bolsheviks and three liquidators were elected. The Bolsheviks
proposed to the liquidators that lots should be cast to decide who
was to be nominated for election to the Duma for the worker curia.
The liquidators rejected the proposal. The gubernia meeting of
electors elected A. Y. Badayev, a Bolshevik, for the worker curia
of St. Petersburg Gubernia.
p. 429
N. K. Krupskaya copied the letter to J. V. Stalin in invisible ink,
writing it between the lines of another letter. The letter was dis-
covered in the files of the Police Department, among other letters
that had been secretely inspected.
Vasilyev—pseudonym of J. V. Stalin.
p. 430
160
161
162
163
164
165
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The
leaflet on the occasion of January 9,
1913, “To All Working
Men and Women of Russia”, was written by J. V. Stalin in De-
cember 1912 on the basis of the directives given by V. I. Lenin
and was brought out over the signature of the Central Commit-
tee of the R.S.D.L.P.
p. 430
This refers to the Right-wing Menshevik I. N. Mankov, a member
of the Fourth Duma. See Note 160.
p. 430
Lenin is referring to the composition of the delegates to the Fifth
Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
p. 437
Lenin is referring to the composition of the Social-Democratic
group in the Second Duma.
p. 437
Balalaikin—a character in M. Saltykov-Shchedrin’s A Modern
Idyll, personifying a liberal windbag, impostor and liar.
p. 440
Russkaya Molva (
Russian News)—a daily newspaper published by
the Progressist Party in St. Petersburg from December 9 (22),
1912, to August 20 (September 2), 1913.
p. 441
Shemyaka’
s trial—an unjust trial (from the title of an old Russian
folk story).
p. 442
Slovo (The Word)—a daily newspaper published in St. Petersburg
from 1904 to 1909. From November 1905 to July 1906 it was an or-
gan of the Octobrist Party. Subsequently it became an organ of the
constitutional-monarchist Party of Peaceful Renovation.
p. 442
The Meeting of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. and Party functiona-
ries called the “February” Meeting for conspiratorial reasons, was
held in Cracow from December 26, 1912 to January 1, 1913 (Jan-
uary 8-14, 1913). Participants in it included Lenin, N. K. Krup-
skaya and the Bolshevik deputies to the Fourth Duma: A. Y. Ba-
dayev, G. I. Petrovsky and N. R. Shagov. It was also attended by
delegates from the illegal Party organisations of St. Petersburg,
the Moscow Region, the South, the Urals and the Caucasus.
The preparations for the Meeting were made by Lenin himself,
who also presided over it. He spoke on a number of items and wrote
the “Notification and Resolutions of the Meeting”.
The Meeting adopted decisions on major issues of the working-
class movement. It discussed reports by delegates on the state of
local Party organisations, and the work of the editorial boards of
Pravda and Prosveshcheniye.
The resolutions of the Meeting were endorsed by the Central
Committee and were hectographed. In the first half of February
they were published together with the Notification as a separate
pamphlet in Paris. In April 1913 the Central Committee Bureau
Abroad circulated a letter to the Party organisations, delegates of
the C.C. and individual Party functionaries, calling on them to dis-
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