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Stalin School of Falsification
most disciplined party in the world.
Session adjourned.
NOTES:
36. The modern universal calendar, differs from the old Russian by being thirteen days in advance. Thus,
the revolution which took place on November 7, 1917, is almost always referred to by the Russians (and
often abroad, too), as the "October Revolution" because, according to the old calendar, it took place on
October 25, 1917. The meeting of the Petrograd Committee of the Bolsheviks was, therefore, actually
held on November 14, 1917, a week after the insurrection. [BACK TO TEXT]
37. Rabochi Put [Worker's Path], the Bolshevik central party organ published in Petrograd after the
suppression of its organ Rabochi by the Provisional Government. Rabochi Put appeared between
September 3 and October 26, 1917, and the polemic referred to by Lenin was the one directed at
Zinoviev and Kamenev, who had broken party discipline and appeared in the columns of Gorky's paper
with an attack on the Bolshevik plan for an insurrection. [BACK TO TEXT]
38. Delo Naroda [People's Cause], the daily organ of the Social Revolutionary party from March 15,
1917, until March 30, 1919. Its editorial board was directed by such men as Zenzlnov, Keren sky,
Chernov, Gotz, Avksentiev and Sorokin, and it pursued a violently anti-Bolshevik policy both before and
after the Novem ber Revolution. [BACK TO TEXT]
39. An English translation of this essay, published in 1932, is available under the imprint of International
Publishers. It pre sented Lenin's arguments in favor of taking power, and set out to prove that the
Bolsheviks would take power and would be able to maintain it, on the basis of the program elaborated in
the essay itself. [BACK TO TEXT]
40. The "Internationalist-Fusionists" referred to by Lenin were the former Mezhrayontsi (see Note 5) who
fused with the Bolsheviks at their Sixth Congress in July, 1917, the latter electing three Mezhrayontsi,
Trotsky, Joffe and Uritsky, to their Central Committee. [BACK TO TEXT]
41. Rumcherod, a combined term made up of abbreviations of the Joint Executive Committee of the
Soviet of the Soldiers of the Roumanian Front, of the Black Sea Coast and of the Odessa Garrison. The
Joint Executive was in the hands of the Mensheviks and the Social Revolutionaries who sought to
employ it as a battering ram against the Bolshevik government. [BACK TO TEXT]
42. Vikzhel, a combined term made up of abbreviations of the Central Executive Committee of the
All-Russian Union of Railwaymen. This body was also controlled by the Mensheviks and Social
Revolutionaries, and disposed of a strong and powerful organization throughout the country, whereas the
Bolsheviks were just beginning to establish an administrative apparatus of their own. For a time the
Bolsheviks were at the mercy of the Vikzhel which controlled the movement of trains and would not
cooperate until the Bolsheviks consented to organize a government including the Mensheviks and Social
Revolutionaries. The sabotage of the Vikzhel was finally broken. [BACK TO TEXT]
43. The "desertions" to Novaya Zhizn [New Life], the organ of Gorky, refers to the action taken by
Zinoviev and Kamenev, on the eve of the insurrection, in publishing their attack on the Bolshevik plan in
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