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NOTES415150151152153154155revolutionary Versailles government to help suppress the Paris Commune.p. 348The lecture “The Tasks of the R.S.D.L.P. in the Russian Revolution”(“The Russian Revolution, Its Significance and Tasks”) wasdelivered in German on March 14 (27), 1917 at a meeting of Swissworkers in the Zurich People’s House. Lenin gave a summary toVolksrecht, and later, on March 31 (April 13), when he was passingthrough Stockholm en route to Russia, also to the editors of theSwedish Left Social-Democratic Politiken, in which it appeared,slightly abridged, on April 15 (No. 86) under the heading: “Leninon the Russian Revolution. Direct Peace Negotiations BetweenPeoples, Not Governments”. p. 355This is discussed in more detail in The State and Revolution,Chapter VI, §3, “Kautsky’s Controversy with Pannekoek” (seepresent edition, Vol. 25). p. 359See Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The CivilWar in France, Address of the General Council of the InternationalWorking Men’s Association, and Engels’s Letter to L. Kugelmann,April 12, 1871; Marx and Engels, Preface to the German edition ofthe Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels, Selected Works,Vol. I, Moscow, 1962, pp. 332-33, 516-17; Vol. II, Moscow, 1962,pp. 463-64; Vol. I, p. 22). p. 359This article appeared in Volksrecht, April 5 (No. 81) and in abridgedform in Avanti!, April 10 (No: 99). Judging from J. S. Hanecki’sletter of March 24 (April 6) to the Bureau in Russia of theR.S.D.L.P. Central Committee, the article was sent to Petrogradon March 22 (April 4). It did not appear in Pravda, presumably becausethe role played by the police agent Chernomazov had alreadybeen explained in the press. p. 362Corriere della Sera—an influential Italian capitalist newspaper,founded in Milan in 1876. p. 362Upon his return to Petrograd on March 12 (25), 1917, M. K. Muranov,a Bolshevik member of the Fourth State Duma, immediatelywrote to the newspaper Dyen stating the facts about Chernomazovand his connection with Pravda. The letter was published onMarch 14 (27). Muranov wrote that Chernomazov had worked onPravda from May 1913 to February 1914 and was dismissed on suspicionof being a police informer. The R.S.D.L.P. Central CommitteeBureau instructed Party organisations and members to discontinueall contact with him. Muranov wrote: “M Chernomazov hadnever been, nor could have been, the chief and sole director ofPravda, which was edited by a board composed of R.S.D.L.P.Central Committee members and R.S.D.L.P. Duma deputies.”p. 364