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

470 NOTES132133134135136circulation of individual issues reached 50,000-60,000. The newspapersuffered continual persecution by the government; out of 96issues of Zvezda and Nevskaya Zvezda, 39 were confiscated and10 were subjected to fines. Zvezda prepared the way for the publicationof the Bolshevik daily newspaper Pravda and was closed downon the day that Pravda appeared. p. 347The “Young” faction—a petty-bourgeois semi-anarchist groupformed in the German Social-Democratic Party in 1890 and composedchiefly of undergraduate students and young writers (hencethe name). It put forward a platform that rejected any Social-Democratic participation in parliament. They were expelled fromthe Party by the Erfurt Congress in October 1891. p. 351Johann Most—German Social-Democrat. In 1880, at the BadenCongress, he was expelled from the Party on account of his disorganisingbehaviour. In the eighties he became an adherent ofanarchism (see Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow,1955, pp. 375-76). p. 351This refers to the plan put forward by the Constitutional-DemocraticParty (Cadets) in 1906 for transferring to the peasants part ofthe landlords’ land for which compensation was to be paid to thelandlords. The “fair valuation” of which the Cadets spoke meantthat the peasants would have to pay for the land much more thanit was actually worth. p. 360This refers to the declaration of the Bolsheviks in the CentralCommittee Bureau Abroad on November 22 (December 5), 1910,demanding the immediate convocation of the Central Committeeto decide the question of the return of the funds of the Bolshevikfaction. The declaration was signed by Lenin and other participantsof the January plenary session of the Central Committeein 1910. p. 365The article “Heroes of ‘Reservation’” was published in the magazineMysl (Thought).Mysl—a Bolshevik legal monthly of a philosophical and socioeconomicnature published in Moscow from December 1910. Themagazine was founded by Lenin as a counter to the liquidationistjournals and for the struggle against them. He edited the magazinefrom abroad. Lenin wrote six articles for the first four issues ofMysl, including the large work “Strike Statistics in Russia”.V. V. Vorovsky, M. S. Olminsky and I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanovwere close collaborators in the magazine, to which pro-Party Mensheviks(G. V. Plekhanov and others) also contributed. The magazinewas published until April 1911, five issues appeared. Thelast, fifth, issue was confiscated. p. 368