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

NOTES4573637383940414243Tsarevokokshaisk—one of the uyezd towns of tsarist Russia. p. 46“Er”—A. V. Sokolov (Volsky). p. 47Vperyod (Forward)—a Bolshevik mass working-class newspaper,under Lenin’s guidance. It was published illegally in Vyborg by theeditors of the newspaper Proletary from September 10 (23), 1906to January 19 (February 1), 1908; 20 issues appeared. Beginningwith No. 2 the newspaper was issued as the organ of the local committeesof the R.S.D.L.P.; No. 2 as the organ of the Moscow, St.Petersburg and Moscow District committees; Nos. 3-7 as the organof the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow District, Perm and Kurskcommittees; Nos. 8-19—as the previous issues with the additionof the Kazan Committee; in the last issue, No. 20, the Urals RegionalCommittee took the place of the Perm and Kazan committees.p. 56Lenin’s work The Otzovist-Ultimatumist Strike-breakers has notbeen found. p. 69The article “The St. Petersburg Election” is devoted to the resultsof the by-election to the Third Duma held in September 1909;it was printed unsigned in Proletary No. 49, October 3 (16), 1909.The note written by Lenin was directed against N. Jordansky’sopportunist article, “No Way Out”, published in Novy DyenNo. 6. p. 76Novy Dyen (New Day)—a legal Social-Democratic weekly newspaper,published in St. Petersburg from July 20 (August 21 to December13 (26), 1909, 15 issues appeared. The newspaper was closeddown by the police. Two articles by Lenin were printed in NovyDyen: “Once More on Partyism and Non-Partyism” and “ConcerningVekhi” (see pp. 62-64, 123-31 of this volume). p. 76This refers to F. Engels’s “Introduction” to Marx’s work TheClass Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850. When the “Introduction”was published by the German Social-Democrats in 1895 it wasdistorted and subsequently interpreted by them as a renunciationof an armed uprising and barricade fighting.The complete test of the “Introduction” was published for thefirst time in the U.S.S.R. alone. (Marx and Engels, Selected Works,Vol. I, Moscow, 1958, pp. 118-38.) p. 76The “Draft Resolution on the Consolidation of the Party and ofIts Unity” was moved by Lenin at the meeting of the editorialboard of the Central Organ, Sotsial-Demokrat, on October 21 (November3), 1909. At this meeting Lenin proposed the publicationof an editorial article “Methods of Consolidating the Party and itsUnity” (so far this article has not been found). In the article Lenindemanded a determined fight against liquidationism and upheldthe need to preserve and consolidate the independence of theBolshevik organisation. The majority of the editorial board, who