Lenin CW-Vol. 23.pdf - From Marx to Mao

398 NOTES8081gans and engage only in the legal activity permitted by the tsaristgovernment. Lenin and other Bolsheviks ceaselessly exposed thisbetrayal of the revolution by the liquidators. The policy of theliquidators was not supported by the workers. The Prague Conferenceof the R.S.D.L.P. (January 1912) expelled them from theParty. p. 167Reference is to the draft platform which the Menshevik OrganisingCommittee Secretariat Abroad issued in Zurich in 1915 and circulatedto organisations affiliated to the August bloc. It was in theform of a letter headed “The Proletariat and the War” and signedby L. Martov and four other Organising Committee secretaries.p. 170The “initiating groups” were formed by the Menshevik liquidatorsfrom the end of 1910 onwards as a counterweight to the illegalParty organisations. They were meant to be the nuclei of a new,broad legal party, functioning within the framework of the June 3,Stolypin regime. The liquidators succeeded in forming “initiatinggroups” in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Ekaterinoslav and Konstantinovka(Donets coalfield) in the shape of small groups of intellectualsdissociated from the working class. In the First World War theyfollowed a social-chauvinist policy. p. 17282Orthodox—the pen-name of Lyubov Axelrod, a Menshevik. p. 17283848586Dyelo (The Cause)—a fortnightly Menshevik magazine publishedin Moscow from August 1916 to January 1917 under the editorshipof A. N. Potresov, P. P. Maslov and Lyubov Axelrod (Orthodox).Ten issues, including three double issues, appeared in 1916 and oneissue in 1917. The magazine followed a chauvinist policy. p. 173Diskussionny Listok (Discussion Bulletin)—a supplement to theR.S.D.L.P. Central Organ, Sotsial-Demokrat, published in Parisfrom March 6 (19), 1910 to April 29 (May 12), 1911. Three issuesappeared. The editorial board was composed of representatives ofthe Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, ultimatumists, Bundists, Plekhanovitesand of the Polish and Latvian Social-Democratic organisations.p. 173Golos (Voice)—a Menshevik social-chauvinist newspaper publishedin Samara in 1916, continuer of the Menshevik papersNash Golos (Our Voice) and Golos Truda (Voice of Labour). Altogetherfour issues appeared. p. 174Reference is to the Menshevik pamphlet Kriegs und Friedensproblemeder Arbeiterklasse (War and Peace Issues Facing the Working Class),a reprint of the draft resolutions and Manifesto of the second ZimmerwaldConference on the tasks of the proletariat in the strugglefor peace, submitted to the Conference by P. Axelrod, S. Lapinskyand L. Martov. p. 174