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

540 NOTES414243444546The reference is to Deputy of the Finnish Diet K. Vijk, in whosecountry- house at Mälm station Lenin stayed for a day when onhis way to Helsingfors. p. 72A collection published in 1917 by the Regional Bureau of theMoscow Industrial District of the R.S.D.L.P., consisting of articlesby V. Milyutin, V. Sokolnikov, A. Lomov, and V. Smirnov. Theforeword said the collection was being published in connectionwith the forthcoming Party Congress which was to review theprogramme. In his article “Revision of the Party Programme”(see pp. 149- 78) Lenin gave a detailed analysis and criticism ofthe articles of Sokolnikov and Smirnov. p. 73Written in Vyborg. It consisted of six chapters, the last not beingintended for publication but for circulation among members ofthe Central Committee, the Petrograd and Moscow Committeesand the Soviets. Only the manuscript of the last two chapters hascome down to us. The article was first published in four chaptersin Rabochy Put No. 30 of October 20 (7), 1917; a comparison of thenewspaper text and the manuscript shows that one of the chapterswas omitted and Chapter V was headed as Chapter IV.The article was widely carried by Bolshevik periodicals. p. 74The reference is to the revolutionary action by German sailors inAugust 1917, who were led by a revolutionary sailors’ organisationnumbering 4,000 members (late July 1917). It was led by seamenMax Reichpietsch and Albin Köbis of the Friedrich der Grosse.The organisation decided to fight for a democratic peace and preparefor an uprising. Manifestations broke out in the navy inearly August. Sailors of the warship Prinzeregent Luitpold, whichwas at Wilhelmshaven, took absence without leave to fight for therelease of their comrades who had earlier been arrested for staginga strike; on August 16, the firemen of the Westphalia refused towork; at the same time the crew of the cruiser Nürnberg, which wasout at sea, staged an uprising. The sailors’ movement spread to theships of several squadrons at Wilhelmshaven . These manifestationswere put down with great savagery. Reichpietsch and Köbiswere shot and other active participants were sentenced to longterms of hard labour. p. 74The reference is to what an officer, Dubasov, said at a meetingof the Petrograd Soviet on September 21 (October 4), 1917. He hadjust returned from the front and declared: “Whatever you may sayover here, the soldiers will not fight”. p. 80Russkiye Vedomosti (Russian Recorder)—a daily published inMoscow from 1863, expressing the views of moderate liberal intellectuals.From 1905 the paper was an organ of the Right wing ofthe Cadet Party. In 1918, it was closed down at the same time asother counter-revolutionary newspapers. p. 80