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

462 NOTES6970The “four-point electoral system”—designation of the democraticelectoral system, which includes four demands: universal, equal,direct suffrage and secret ballot. p. 128Novoye Vremya (New Times)—a daily newspaper published in St.Petersburg from 1868 to October 1917. Moderately liberal at theoutset, it became after 1876 the organ of reactionary circles of thenobility and the bureaucracy. The paper was hostile not only tothe revolutionary, but even to the liberal-bourgeois movement.After 1905 it became an organ of the Black Hundreds. Lenin calledNovoye Vremya the acme of venality in the press. p. 12971Anthony, Bishop of Volhynia—an extreme reactionary. p. 1297273747576The words “Enrich yourselves, gentlemen, and you will becomeelectors” are ascribed to Guizot, head of the French Governmentduring the years of the July monarchy (1830-48). p. 129This refers to the resolution of the Fifth (London) Congress of theR.S.D.L.P. “On the Attitude to Non-proletarian Parties “ (seeThe C.P.S.U. in Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferencesand Plenary Meetings of the Central Committee, 7th Russianed., Part 1, 1953, pp. 164-65). p. 132Moskovsky Yezhenedelnik (Moscow Weekly)—a weekly magazine,organ of the bourgeois-landlord counter-revolutionary “Partyof Peaceful Renovation”, published in Moscow from 1906 to 1910.p. 136The Vperyod group—an anti-Party group of otzovists, ultimatumists,god-builders and empirio-monists (adherents of the reactionaryidealist philosophy of Mach and Avenarius), organised inDecember 1909 on the initiative of A. Bogdanov and G. Alexinsky.Its press organ bore this name. In 1912 the Vperyodists, togetherwith the Menshevik liquidators, united against the Bolsheviks ina general anti-Party bloc (the August bloc) organised by Trotsky.Since it did not have the support of the workers, the groupvirtually broke up as early as in 1913. Its final and formal disintegrationoccurred in 1917 after the February Revolution. p. 145The Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.known as the “Unity” plenum, was held January 2-23 (January15-February 5), 1910 in Paris. The plenum was convened in spiteof Lenin with the assistance of Trotsky’s hidden allies: ZinovievKamenev and Rykov. Present at it, in addition to the Bolsheviks,were representatives of all factions and factional groupings, aswell as representatives of national Social-Democratic organisations.The conciliators, hidden Trotskyists, countered Lenin’splan of a rapprochement with the pro-Party Mensheviks (Plekhanovites)for combating liquidationism by demanding the dissolutionof all factions and the union of the Bolsheviks with the liquidators