Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

454 NOTES2424aNarodnik persuasion. The Trudovik group was formed in April1906 from peasant deputies in the First Duma.The Trudoviks put forward demands for the removal of all social-estateand national restrictions, the democratisation of Zemstvoand urban self-government, and the establishment of universalsuffrage for elections to the Duma. The agrarian programme of theTrudoviks was based on Narodnik principles of equalitarian use ofthe land: the formation of a national fund from state, crown andchurch lands, and also from privately owned lands if the size of theholding exceeded the established labour norm. It was envisagedthat there would be compensation for the privately owned land tobe nationalised. Lenin pointed out that the typical Trudovikwas a peasant who was “not averse to a compromise with the monarchy,to settling down quietly on his own plot of land under thebourgeois system; but at the present time his main efforts are concentratedon the fight against the landlords for land, on the fightagainst the feudal state and for democracy” (see present edition,Vol. 11, p. 229).In the Duma the Trudoviks wavered between the Cadets andthe Social-Democrats. These waverings were due to the class natureof the small peasant farmers. Nevertheless, owing to the fact thatthe Trudoviks represented the mass of the peasants, the Bolsheviksin the Duma pursued a policy of concluding agreements with themon particular questions for a joint struggle against the tsarist autocracyand the Cadets. In 1917, the Trudovik group merged with thePopular Socialist Party and actively supported the bourgeois ProvisionalGovernment. After the October Socialist Revolution theTrudoviks sided with the bourgeois counter-revolution. p. 27The Meeting of the Enlarged Editorial Board of “Proletary” washeld in Paris on June 8-17 (21-30), 1909. Nine members of theBolshevik Centre (elected by the Bolshevik group of the Fifth[London] Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. in 1907) were present at it,headed by Lenin, and representatives of the organisations ofSt. Petersburg, Moscow Region and the Urals. The meeting wasconvened to discuss the anti-Party stand of the otzovists and ultimatumistsand took place under Lenin’s leadership. Lenin spokeon all the main questions on the agenda. Otzovism and ultimatumismwere defended at the meeting by A. Bogdanov (Maximov)and V. Shantser (Marat). Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov and Tomskyadopted a double-dealing position. The meeting condemned otzovismand ultimatumism as “Left liquidationism”. It also condemnedgod-building and adopted a decision for a vigorous struggleagainst it, exposing its anti-Marxist character. Bogdanov, theinspirer of otzovism and ultimatumism, was expelled from theranks of the Bolsheviks. p. 29Boyeviks—members of the revolutionary fighting squads, who,during the revolutionary struggle, used the tactics of armed action,helped political prisoners to escape, expropriated stateownedfunds for the needs of the revolution, removed spies andagent provocateurs, etc. p. 30