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Written December 9 (22), 1904 |
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From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965
Second Edition
Vol. 7, pp. 529-39.
Translated by Abraham Fineberg and by Naomi Jochel
Edited by Clemens Dutt
page 529
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[167] By N is meant Central Committee member Rosalia Zemlyachka. [p. 531]
page 575
[168] By P. is meant P. A. Krasikov. [p. 533]
[169] Lidin -- pseudonym of M. N. Lyadov. [p. 533]
[170] These four Central Committee members were Lenin, Lengnik, Essen, and Zemlyachka. [p. 534]
[171] Concerning the contents of this declaration see pp. 430-31 of this volume. [Transcriber's Note: See Lenin's "Statement By Three Members of the Central Committee". -- DJR] [p. 534]
[172] The reference is to the Amsterdam Congress of the Second International, held on August 14-20, 1904. The report presented to it in the name of the R.S.D.L.P. delegation was a Menshevik document; to counterbalance it the Bolsheviks presented a report of their own, in the form of a pamphlet entitled Material for an Understanding of the Party Crisis in the Social-Democratic Labour Party of Russia, which Lenin helped to compile and edit. [p. 534]
[173]
For the "collegium" see Note 142.
[Note 142: The "July Declaration" (see Note 139) was signed by the conciliators Krasin, Noskov, and Galperin, referred to on p. 467 as the Central Committee "collegium in Russia".
Note 139: Lenin is speaking of the "July Declaration" -- a resolution adopted in the name of the Central Committee in July 1904 by the conciliator members Krasin, Noskov (Glebov), and Galperin it was published in Iskra, No. 72 (August 25, 1904) under the title "Statement by the Central Committee". In this resolution the conciliators recognised as legitimate the Plekhanov-co-opted Menshevik editorial board of Iskra and defended the opportunism of the Mensheviks; they co-opted to the Central Committee three other conciliators -- Lyubimov, Karpov, and Dubrovinsky; they came out against convening the Third Party Congress and dissolved the Central Committee's Southern Bureau, which had been agitating for a congress. They deprived Lenin of the powers of foreign representative of the Central Committee and forbade his writings to be published without their sanction.
The adoption of the "July Declaration" meant total betrayal of the Second Party Congress decisions and the open defection of the conciliators on the Central Committee to the side of the Mensheviks.]
[p. 536]