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

NOTES5519091929394They took a Centrist attitude and criticised the social chauvinistsbut were afraid to break with them and opposed the basicprinciples of Lenin’s tactics adopted by the Bolshevik Party onwar, peace and revolution.After the Great October Socialist Revolution, some of themsided with avowed enemies of Soviet power and left the country.Others accepted Soviet power and worked in Soviet institutions.Some of them joined the Bolshevik Party. p. 220Politiken (Politics)—a newspaper of the Swedish Left Social-Democrats, who formed the Left Social- Democratic Party of Swedenin 1917; it was published in Stockholm from April 27, 1916.From November 1917 it came out under the name of Folkets DagbladPolitiken (People’s Political Daily). Among its contributorswere Zimmerwald Left Socialists from Germany, Russia, Franceand other countries. Then the Left Social- Democratic Partyjoined the Communist International in 1921, it became the CommunistParty, and the newspaper became its organ. When theparty split in October 1929, the paper passed into the hands of theRight wing. It suspended publication in May 1945.Työmies (The Worker)—a newspaper of the Social- DemocraticParty of Finland, published in Helsingfors from March 1895 to1918. p. 220The Internationalist—a weekly, the organ of the Left- wing Socialists,published in Boston, U.S.A., from early 1917 by the SocialistPropaganda League. On its editorial board were U.S. andother internationalists, among them Williams, Gibbs, Zartarian,Rosin, Rutgers, and Edwards. p. 221Stürgkh, Karl (1859- 1916)—reactionary Austrian statesman; from1911 to 1916, head of the Austro- Hungarian Government whichtook active part in preparing and starting the First World War.It dissolved the Austrian and later the Hungarian Parliamentand set up a military- absolutist dictatorship which crushed themounting anti- war and revolutionary movement. In October 1916,Stürgkh was killed by the Austrian Social- Democrat FriedrichAdler. p. 221A reference (as on p. 224) to the enlarged meeting of the CentralCommittee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), on October 16 (29), 1917, atwhich Zinoviev and Kamenev opposed the decision to launchan armed uprising taken on October 10 (23). p. 224Lenin refers to the reforms launched by the British bourgeoisiein Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century under pressurefrom the Irish land movement. See also Lenin’s article “The BritishLiberals and Ireland” (in Volume 20 of the present edition).p. 232