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cuss the decisions of the “February” Meeting in their committees,
Party nuclei and groups. In a letter to Maxim Gorky, Lenin pointed
out that the Meeting “was a great success and will play a definite
role”.
p. 447
This refers to the statement which A. I. Chkhenkeli, a Menshevik
member of the Duma, made on the government declaration at the
Duma sitting on December 10 (23), 1912.
p. 461
The formulation rejected by the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.
was the proposal made by Goldblatt, a Bundist, for incorporating
in Clause Eight of the Party Programme—on “the right of all the
nations included in the state to self-determination”—the following
addition: “and to the establishment of institutions guaranteeing
complete freedom of their cultural development”.
p. 461
At the fourteenth sitting of the Duma on December 15 (28), 1912,
following the debate on the Government Declaration, the Cadets,
Progressists, Trudoviks and nationalists proposed draft formulas
of procedure to the next business. The Progressist formula was
carried by majority vote. It expressed confidence that the govern
ment would implement the Manifesto of October 17, 1905. Mem
bers of the Social-Democratic group voted for this formula. After
wards they admitted their vote to have been ill-advised.
p. 461
The unpublished clauses (7, 8 and 9) of the resolution on the work
of the Social-Democratic Duma group called on the Bolshevik
deputies to achieve equality in the group with the seven Menshe
viks, strike their names off the list of contributors to the liquida
tionist Luch and rally together for Party work. The text of these
clauses has not been preserved.
p. 461
The Bureau of the Central Committee—the Russian Bureau of the
C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P., the Bolshevik Party’s practical centre for
leading revolutionary struggle in Russia. It was established by
the Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. in
January 1912. Among its members were members of the Central
Committee G. K. Orjonikidze, Y. M. Sverdlov, S. S. Spandaryan
and J. V. Stalin, and alternate members of the C.C. M. I. Kalinin
and Y. D. Stasova. Later on, owing to frequent arrests of Party
functionaries in Russia, the composition of the Russian Bureau
underwent changes more than once, new members being co-
opted to replace those who had dropped out.
The Russian Bureau was led by the Central Committee of the
Party headed by Lenin. Its tasks were to carry out the decisions
of the Prague Conference of the R.S.D.L.P., rally the local Party
organisations to the Central Committee ideologically and organisa-
tionally, strengthen Party unity, and combat opportunist trends.
The Bureau did a great deal in the way of publishing and distrib-
uting Bolshevik leaflets, appeals and other illegal literature. It
was an important connecting link between the Central Committee
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and local Party organisations. It ceased to function after the Feb-
ruary bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1917.
p. 461
Lenin is quoting from the workers’ song which Georg Herwegh,
a German poet, wrote in 1863 for the General Association of German
Workers.
p. 467
Bremer Bürger Zeitung—a Social-Democratic daily published from
1890 to 1919. It was under the influence of the Left Social-Demo-
crats of Bremen until 1916, when it passed into the hands of social-
chauvinists.
p. 469
Before the delegates from the worker curia of St. Petersburg Gu-
bernia held their congress (October 5 [18], 1912) to elect electors
to the Fourth Duma, the government gave a so-called clarification
on twenty-one of the forty-four factories that had taken part in the
elections, saying that the election of delegates at those factories
had been found null and void. In reply to this government move,
the workers in a number of St. Petersburg factories called a politi-
cal strike. The strike, which soon spread to every district of St.
Petersburg, was accompanied by mass meetings and demonstra-
tions. See also Note 164.
p. 471
This refers to reports from Riga and Moscow about, workers’
strikes and demonstrations, published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 30,
on January 12 (25), 1913. On November 11 (24), 1912, the Riga
workers organised a protest demonstration against the death sen-
tences on a group of sailors of the battleship Ioann Zlatoust passed
by a court martial in Sevastopol, against the torturing of political
prisoners, and against the war that had begun in the Balkans.
Over 1,500 workers marched through the streets of Riga singing
revolutionary songs and carrying red flags. They were received
sympathetically by the population. On November 12 (25) many
large factories in the city began a political strike. On November
8 (21) the workers in a number of Moscow factories went on strike
in protest against the Sevastopol executions. There was also a
demonstration but the police soon dispersed it.
p. 473
V. A.—V. M. Abrosimov, a Menshevik liquidator, subsequently
exposed as an agent provocateur.
F. D.—F. I. Dan, leader of the Menshevik liquidators.
p. 477
The manuscript has no title. The title given here has been supplied
by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the C.C. of the
C.P.S.U.
p. 478
Avgustovsky—pseudonym of S. O. Zederbaum, a Menshevik
liquidator.
p. 483
The article “On Bolshevism” was written by Lenin for the second
volume of N. A. Rubakin’s book
Among Books. On January 12
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