Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

538 NOTES272829303132been known as the organ of the Soviets of Working People’s Deputies.p. 41An abridged version of the article was first published in No. 19of Rabochy Put of October 7 (September 24),1917, under the title“Heroes of Fraud”. It did not contain the part of Lenin’s articlewhich criticised the mistakes of the Bolsheviks in respect of theDemocratic Conference, and also those of Zinoviev and Kamenev.It may have been this Lenin had in mind when in Chapter VIof the article “The Crisis Has Matured”, which was circulatedamong members of the Central Committee, the Petrograd andMoscow Committees and the Soviets, he wrote with indignationthat the Central Organ was deleting his statements about “theglaring errors on the part of the Bolsheviks...” (see p. 84 of thisvolume).The first, second and third editions of Lenin’s Collected Workscontained the text of the article as it had appeared in RabochyPut, but in the fourth edition it was published in full, accordingto the manuscript; this translation follows the manuscript. p. 43Lieberdans—an ironical nickname which stuck to the MensheviksLieber and Dan and their followers, after Demyan Bedny’s feuilletonin Sotsial- Demokrat [No. 141 of August 25 (September 7), 1917],under that title. p. 43On June 3 (16), 1907, the tsar issued a manifesto dissolving theSecond State Duma and amending the electoral law. The landowners,industrialists and merchants were given many more seats in theDuma, and the workers and peasants very many less. This wasa gross violation of the Manifesto of October 17, 1905, and theFundamental Law of 1906, which made all Government decreessubject to Duma approval. The Third Duma, which was electedunder the new law and met on November 1 (14), 1907, was outand-outreactionary. p. 46Rabochy Put (The Workers’ Path)—the Central Organ of theBolshevik Party, a daily published from September 3 (16) toOctober 26 (November 8), 1917 in place of the newspaper Pravda,which was closed down by the Provisional Government. On October27 (November 9), Pravda resumed publication under its originalname. p. 49Sotsial- Demokrat (Social- Democrat)—a daily, the organ of theMoscow Regional Bureau, and the Moscow Committee, and later, alsoof the Moscow District Committee of the Bolshevik Party; publishedfrom March 1917 to March 1918. When the Soviet Governmentand the Party’s Central Committee moved to Moscow thepaper was merged with Pravda. p. 49Russkaya Volya (Russia’s Freedom)—a bourgeois daily foundedby the tsarist Minister of the Interior Protopopov, and subsidised