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392 NOTES495051525354555657The Bolsheviks were not invited, but on Lenin’s instructionsLitvinov attended the Conference and read a statement ofthe R.S.D.L.P. Central Committee, based on a draft drawn up byLenin. It demanded that socialists resign from bourgeois governments,renounce alliance and co-operation with the imperialists,wage an energetic struggle against imperialist governments andrefuse to vote war credits. The statement was published in Sotsial-Demokrat, the R.S.D.L.P. Central Organ, March 29, 1915, No. 40.Lenin discusses the Conference in his articles “The London Conference”and “On the London Conference” (see present edition, Vol. 21,pp. 132-34, 178-80). p. 93This refers to Karl Kilbom’s article “Swedish Social-Democracy andthe World War” and Arvid Hansen’s “Certain Features of the ContemporaryLabour Movement in Norway”, both of which appeared inSbornik Sotsial-Demokrata No. 2, December 1916. p. 94The Socialist Review—a monthly magazine published in London bythe reformist Independent Labour Party of England from 1908 to1934. During the First World War its contributors included RamsayMacDonald, Philip Snowden, Algernon Lee and others. p. 104K. Marx, Preface to the second edition of The Eighteenth Brumaireof Louis Bonaparte (see Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. I,Moscow, 1962, p. 244). p. 107Kommunist—a magazine founded by Lenin and published in Genevain 1915 jointly by Sotsial-Demokrat and Y. L. Pyatakov andY. B. Bosh, who financed it. N. I. Bukharin was one of the editors.Only one double issue appeared, in September 1915. It containedthree of Lenin’s articles: “The Collapse of the Second International,”“The Honest Voice of a French Socialist”, and “Imperialism andSocialism in Italy”. (See also Note No. 1.) p. 107Bulletin of the R.S.D.L.P. Organising Committee, SecretariatAbroad—a Menshevik Centrist organ, published in Geneva fromFebruary 1915 to March 1917. Altogether ten issues appeared.p. 110See Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955,p. 132. p. 112See Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955,pp. 422-23. p. 112See Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, Moscow, 1955,p. 491. p. 113See Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. II, Moscow, 1962,pp. 406-19. p. 113