Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

NOTES501891011it was the first time that any big tsarist military unit had joinedthe revolution. p. 19The Witte Duma—Russia’s First Duma, convened on April 27(May 10), 1906 on a franchise drafted by the Prime Minister Witte.Although the electoral law governing elections to the First Dumawas anti-democratic, the tsar did not succeed in convening a whollydocile Duma. The majority in the Duma were Cadets, who triedto win the confidence of the peasantry with false promises of reforms,including an agrarian reform.The tsarist government dissolved the Duma on July 8 (21), 1906.p. 21The man in the muffler—the chief character in Chekhov’s story ofthe same name, typifying the narrow-minded philistine, whofights shy of all innovations and display of initiative. p. 22See Friedrich Engels, Flüchtlingsliteratur, Internationales ausdem Volksstaat, Berlin, 1957. p. 23The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. was held in Stockholm,April 10-25 (April 23-May 8), 1906.It was attended by 112 delegates with the right to vote,representing 57 local organisations, and 22 consultative delegates.In addition, there were representatives from the non-RussianSocial-Democratic parties: three each from those of Poland andLithuania, the Bund, the Lettish Social-Democratic Labour Party,and one each from the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labour Partyand the Labour Party of Finland, and a representative of theBulgarian Social-Democratic Labour Party. The Bolshevik delegatesincluded F. A. Artyom (Sergeyev), M. F. Frunze, M. I. Kalinin,V. I. Lenin, S. G. Shaumyan, and V. V. Vorovsky. The Congressdiscussed the agrarian question, the current situation and theclass tasks of the proletariat, the attitude towards the Duma, andorganisational questions. There was a sharp struggle between theBolsheviks and the Mensheviks on all issues. Lenin deliveredreports and made speeches at the Congress on the agrarianquestion, on the current situation, on the tactics to be assumed inregard to the elections to the Duma on the armed uprising, andother questions.The Mensheviks’ numerical preponderance at the Congress,though slight, determined the character of the Congress decisions.On a number of questions the Congress adopted Menshevikresolutions the agrarian programme, the attitude towards theDuma, etc.). The Congress adopted Lenin’s formulation ofParagraph One of the Party Rules. The Congress admitted into theR.S.D.L.P. the non-Russian Social-Democratic organisations: theSocial-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania, and the LettishSocial-Democratic Labour Party and adopted a draft laying downthe conditions on which the Bund could join the R.S.D.L.P.The Central Committee elected at the Congress consisted ofthree Bolsheviks and seven Mensheviks. Only Mensheviks wereelected to the Editorial Board of the Central Organ.