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in Za Pravdu beginning from October 22 (November 4). They are
summed up in Lenin’s “How the Workers Responded to the For- mation of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Group In the Duma” (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 536-43). p. 119 The Bolshevik deputies’ statement (“Reply to the Seven Deputies”) on the setting up of an independent Russian Social-Democratic Labour group in the Fourth Duma was published in No. 22 of Za Pravdu, October 29, 1913. p. 120
Lenin’s letter was prompted by the appearance in Russkoye Slovo (Russian Word) No. 219, September 22, 1913, of an article by Gorky “On the Karamazov Attitude”, protesting against the Mos- cow Art Theatre’s staging of Dostoyevsky’s reactionary novel The Possessed. The bourgeois press came to the defence of the play and Gorky replied with another article “Once Again on the Kara- mazov Attitude”, which was published in No. 248 of Russkoye
Large sections of the article, but without the concluding para- graph, were reprinted on October 28 (November 10) in Rech No. 295. The next day Gorky’s article, including the final paragraph, which Lenin quotes in full in his letter, was reprinted in the liquidators’
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Russkaya Mysl (Russian Thought)—literary- political magazine that was published in Moscow 1880- 1918. After the 1905 revolu- tion it became the organ of the Right wing of the Constitutional- Democratic (Cadet) Party. Izgoyev, A. S., a bourgeois journalist, was one of the ideologists of this party. p. 123
Lenin’s article “Material on the Conflict Within the Social- Democratic Duma Group”, first published in Za Pravdu No. 22, 584 NOTES
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151 October 29, 1913 (see present edition, Vol. 19, pp. 458- 74), was nut reprinted in the newspaper. In 1914 it was reprinted in the symposium Marxism and Liquidationism under the title “Material on the History of the Formation of the Russian Social- Democratic Labour Group in the Duma”. Issue No. 22 of Za Pravdu was confiscated because of its leading article “Beilis Acquitted”. p. 125
leader of the Black Hundreds, notorious for his anti-semitic speeches in the Duma.
a leader of the Constitutional- Democratic (Cadet) Party. In the nineties he was a prominent representative of “legal Marxism” and tried to adapt Marxism and the working- class movement to the interests of the bourgeoisie. p. 128
Armand, Inessa (1875- 1920)—outstanding figure in the interna- tional women’s working- class and communist movement. She became a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1904 and took an active part in the 1905-07 revolution and in the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917. p. 130
Reference is to Kautsky’s speech at the meeting of the Internation- al Socialist Bureau on December 14, 1913. It was criticised severely by Lenin in his articles “A Good Resolution and a Bad Speech” and “Kautsky’s Unpardonable Error” (see present edition, Vol. 19, pp. 528-31, and 546-48). p. 130
Trusted agents—workers chosen to maintain constant contact between the Central Committee and the local Social- Democratic groups, and to evolve flexible forms of leadership for local activities in the big working-class centres. The system of trusted agents was initiated by the Cracow Conference of the CC. of the R.S.D.L.P. of 1913 and the need for it was confirmed by the Poronin Conference. p. 131
Sputnik Rabochego (Worker’s Handbook) for 1914—a pocket calendar put out by the Party Priboi publishers in December 1913. The whole edition was sold in one day. In February 1914 a second, revised edition was produced. The calendar included Lenin’s article “Strikes in Russia” (see present edition, Vol. 19, pp. 534- 38). p. 132 Lenin refers to the preparation for the publication of the magazine Rabotnitsa (Working Woman), the first issue of which appeared in St. Petersburg on February 23 (March 8), 1914. p. 132
1919. Until 1916 it was under the influence of the Bremen Left 585 NOTES
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Social-Democrats, but later fell into the hands of the social-chauvin- ists.
p. 133 Shakhtyorsky Listok (Miners’ Leaflet)—appeared on March 16, 1914 as a supplement to No. 38 of Put Pravdy. It was published on the initiative of the miners themselves and on funds which they collected. The second Shakhtyorsky Listok came out in No. 77 of Put Pravdy, May 4, 1914. The Appeal to the Ukrainian Workers was printed in Ukrainian in No. 28 of Trudovaya Pravda on June 29, 1914 over the signature of Ocksen Lola. The MS. of Lenin’s draft appeal has not been pre- served. The contents of the document published in Trudovaya
The “Editorial Comment on Ocksen Lola’s ‘Appeal to the Ukrai- nian Workers’ ” was written by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 20, p. 494). p. 135
shevik. Persecuted for his revolutionary activities, he emigrated after the 1905- 07 revolution to Galicia, then to Paris. p. 135
Lenin sent Inessa Armand O. Lola’s (Stepanyuk’s) letter of April 22 (N.S.), 1914, in which Lola wrote that he was entirely in agreement with the “Appeal to the Ukrainian Workers”, but that it should be printed on behalf of the Pravda editorial board and not over his signature. p. 137
The “important affair” was the preparation for the next Party Congress, which was to be held in accordance with the decision of the “August” (sometimes called “Summer”) 1913 Conference of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. and Party workers. The outbreak of the first world war prevented this. p. 137
The Programme and Rules of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, with amendments to the Rules made by the Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. of 1912, were published by the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. in Paris in 1914. p. 138
Lenin’s letter is an addendum to a letter from G. Y. Zinoviev to the editorial board of the magazine D z v i n, in which Zinoviev reported on his talks with a member of the editorial board, L. Yur- kevich, on the conditions under which the Bolsheviks might work for the magazine. The statements in favour of splitting off the Ukrainian workers into a separate Social-Democratic organisation which roused Lenin’s indignation had been made in Yurkevich’s preface to a book by Levinsky Ocherk razvitiya ukrainskogo rabochego dvizhe-
ing- Class Movement in Galicia) (Kiev, 1914). Lenin sharply criti- cised the views of the bourgeois nationalist Yurkevich on the problem of nationalities in his article “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination” (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 448-49).
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Dzvin (The Bell)—legal nationalist monthly with a Menshevik orientation; published in Ukrainian in Kiev from January 1913 to the middle of 1914. p. 139
Nakoryakov, N. N. (b. 1881)—began his revolutionary activity in 1901, worked in the R.S.D.L.P. committees in Kazan and Samara and was a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. In 1911 he emigrated to America, where he edited the Menshevik- orientated newspaper Novy Mir, published by Russian émigrés. In 1917 he returned to Russia and in 1925 joined the R.C.P.(B.). p. 140
lished by a group of Russian émigrés in New York in 1911-17. From 1912 to 1916 the paper was edited by J. Ellert (whose real name was N. N. Nakoryakov. See Note 158.). p. 140 The date “May 19” was crossed out by N. K. Krupskaya and replaced by the date when the letter was sent “June 4”. In the margin is written: “For . . . [one word heavily deleted.—Ed.] urgent”. The letter has an addendum by N. K. Krupskaya: “Because of the Bill the letter remained unposted for two weeks. Have you received the previous letter sent to the same address? Why don’t you reply? Warmest greetings!” p. 142 Reference is to Shahumyan’s pamphlet National-Cultural Auton- omy, which he wrote in Armenian in 1913. The pamphlet was a reply to articles by the Armenian bourgeois nationalist D. Ana- nun (An) “The Problem of Nationalities and Democracy”. No communication from the author about the contents of the pamphlet was published in Prosveshcheniye. p. 142
The outlines of the Bill given in this letter formed the basis of Lenin’s “Bill on the Equality of Nations and the Safeguarding of the Rights of National Minorities” (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 281-83). The Bill was to be brought into the Fourth Duma by the Bolshevik group, but this was not achieved. p. 142
Lenin refers to the novel Paternal Testaments by the Ukrainian writer V. Vinnichenko, a bourgeois nationalist. p. 144 Reference is to the report of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P, drawn up by Lenin for the Brussels “Unity” Conference. On Lenin’s instructions the report was delivered at the conference by Inessa Armand (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 495- 535). p. 146
Yedinstvo (Unity)—newspaper uniting the extreme Right- wing group of the Menshevik defencists led by Plekhanov. It was pub- lished in Petrograd. Four issues came out in May- June 1914. It appeared daily from March to November 1917. From December 587 NOTES
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1917 to January 1918, it was published under the title Nashe Yedin- stvo (Our Unity). p. 146
Kautsky’s letter against Rosa Luxemburg concerning the report on the meeting of the I.S.B. was published in Vorwärts, central organ of the German Social- Democrats, No. 339, December 24, 1913 and reprinted in Proletarskaya Pravda No. 12, December 20 (O.S.), 1913 with a postscript by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 63-64). Kautsky’s letter was a reply to Rosa Luxemburg’s letter to the editorial board of Vorwärts. p. 148
Lenin has in mind the resolution “Property in the Hands of the Former Trustee, and Financial Reports”, passed by the Prague Party Conference of 1912. The Conference declared that in view of the liquidators’ infringement of agreement and in view of the trustees’ refusal to arbitrate, the Bolsheviks’ representatives had every formal right to use the Party property in the hands of the former trustee C. Zetkin. p. 149
This refers to G. V. Plekhanov’s articles “Under a Hail of Bullets (Passing Notes)”, published in Pravda, April- June 1913. p. 149 Reference is to the Fourth Congress of the Social- Democrats of the Lettish Region, which was held from January 26 to February 8 (N.S.), 1914 in Brussels. p. 150
“On the Current Situation and Unity” over the signature of the “Loading Institution of the Social-Democrats of the Lettish Region” (C.C. of the S.D.L.R.). Stressing the “need for unity of forces and activity of the working class”, the resolution stipulated the following as the basis of unity: (1) “uncurtailed demands”; (2) recognition of the underground; (3) unity from below; (4) “recog- nition of the democratic majority and not the federation”; (5) struggle “against the liquidators both on the right and on the left”.
p. 150 The resolution was on “The Absence of Delegates from the Non- Russian National Centres at the General Party Conference” passed by the Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. p. 150
Reference is to the “Draft Terms of the Amalgamation of the Lettish Social-Democratic Labour Party with the R.S.D.L.P.”, passed at the Fourth (Unity) Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., April- May 1906, in Stockholm. p. 151 The paper was the Menshevik liquidators’ Nasha Rabochaya Gazeta, which came out in St. Petersburg from May to July 1914. p . 1 5 1 588 NOTES
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180 The Polish opposition, which at the earlier sessions of the Brussels Conference had been unanimous with the Bolsheviks and the Lettish Social-Democrats, voted at the last session in favour of the resolution of the International Socialist Bureau drawn up by Kautsky. p. 152 Reference is to the conditions of “unity” proposed by the Bol- sheviks at the Brussels “Unity” Conference (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 515- 27). p. 152 Lenin managed to finish his article on Marx in November 1914 (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 43- 91). In its reply to Lenin’s letter the Granat Bros. Publishing House wrote on July 12 (O.S.), 1914: “Since with this particular article we connect a whole series of factors of great importance to the entire character of the Dictionary, we are unable to resign our- selves to having an indifferent, average interpretation of this sub- ject. We have all along wanted to get a scientifically serious and forceful interpretation. . . . Though we have considered foreign as well as Russian names, we cannot find an author. We request you most earnestly, therefore, to go ahead with the article.... We are prepared . . . to grant a considerable postponement—till August 15. . . . We request you most insistently, again and again, not to give it up and to share with us the view that this article would be a valuable and necessary undertaking.” (Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C. of the C.P.S.U.) p. 153
Lenin refers to the plans for publishing the Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P., Sotsial-Demokrat (see Note 105), and illegal Bol- shevik literature. p. 155
Lenin was to lecture on “The European War and Socialism”. He did so in Geneva on October 15, 1914. p. 155 Reference is to the theses “The Tasks of Revolutionary Social- Democracy in the European War”, known as “The Theses on War”, and to the Manifesto of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. “The War and Russian Social- Democracy” (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 15- 19, 25- 34). p. 156 The Committee of Organisations Abroad was elected at a confer- ence of the groups of the R.S.D.L.P. abroad in Paris in December 1911. Its composition changed several times. At the conference of R.S.D.L.P. groups abroad held in Berne, February 27 to March 4, 1915, N. K. Krupskaya, I. F. Armand, G. L. Shklovsky and V. M. Kasparov were elected to the Committee. During the war the Committee was based in Switzerland and worked under Lenin’s immediate guidance. It did much to co-ordinate the activities of the R.S.D.L.P. sections abroad, campaigned against the social- chauvinists, and worked for unity of the Left-wing internationalists among the Social- Democrats of various countries. p. 157
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Plekhanov’s lecture “On the Socialists’ Attitude to the War” was organised by the local group of Mensheviks in Lausanne, October 11, 1914. Only Lenin spoke in the discussion of the lecture. Some brief notes by Lenin on Plekhanov’s lecture and reply to the discussion, and also the rough plan of Lenin’s speech on the lecture, have been preserved. A newspaper report of Lenin’s speech was printed in
ing the text of Plekhanov’s lecture, was published in the same paper. p. 158
Lenin lectured on “The Proletariat and the War” in Lausanne on October 14, 1914, and on “The European War and Socialism” in Geneva on October 15. p. 158
This refers to the Bolsheviks’ reply to Emile Vandervelde’s tele- gram, which he sent to the Social-Democratic group in the Duma, appealing for support of the Russian Government in the war against Germany. The reply, which was published over the joint signa- ture of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 33, November 1, 1914, stated that in the interests of democracy and socialism the Bolsheviks considered it an urgent task of the revo- lutionary proletarian party in the period of the imperialist war to extend and consolidate the class organisations of the proletariat and to develop the class struggle against the imperialist bourgeoi- sie and its governments. p. 159
The Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P. Sotsial-Demokrat was revived by Lenin after it had been silent for almost a year. No. 33 appeared in Geneva on November 1 (14), 1914. p. 159
Golos (Voice)—a Menshevik daily; came out in Paris from Sep- tember 1914 to January 1915. p. 159 During the imperialist world war Shlyapnikov was sent to Stock- holm by the Petersburg Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. and the Bolshevik group in the Duma and was for a time the connecting link between Lenin and the Russian section of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. and the Petersburg Committee. p. 161 Lenin refers to P. Maslov’s letter to the editors of Russkiye Vedomosti, which was published under the heading “War and Com- mercial Agreements” in No. 207 of the paper for September 10 (23), 1914, to the article by Y. Smirnov (Gurevich) “The War and European Democracy”, published in No. 202 of Russkiye Vedomosti, September 3 (16), 1914, and to the appeal by writers, artists and actors “Concerning the War”, published in Russkoye Slovo No. 223, September 28 (October 11), 1914. p. 161
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of the Paris section of the Bolsheviks—N. I. Sapozhkov (Kuz- netsov), A. V. Britman (Antonov) and others—together with the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries approved a declaration on behalf of the “Russian Socialists”, published it in the French press, and then went to the front. Download 4.26 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
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