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

NOTES511505152The S.D.K.P.&L. hailed the October Socialist Revolution anddeveloped a struggle for the victory of the proletarian revolutionin Poland. In December 1918, at the Unity Congress of theS.D.K.P.&L. and the P.P.S. Left wing, the two parties united,forming the Communist Workers’ Party of Poland. p. 88The Polish Socialist Party ( P.P.S.—Polska Partia Socjalistyczna)—a reformist nationalist party founded in 1892. p. 88Dashnaktsutyuns—members of the nationalist bourgeois partyof that name. Founded in the early nineties of the nineteenth centuryin Turkish Armenia with the aim of liberating the TurkishArmenians from the Sultan’s yoke, the party was a bourgeoisdemocraticconglomerate of representatives of different classes.Besides the bourgeoisie, its membership consisted largely ofintellectuals, and included also peasants and workers uninfluencedby Social-Democratic propaganda, and some lumpen-proletarians,who made up the so-called “Zinvori” squads.On the eve of the 1905-07 revolution the Dashnaktsutyunstransferred their activities to the Caucasus and established closeties with the Socialist-Revolutionaries. The Left wing of the party,which formed the “Young Dashnaktsutyun” group, joined theS.R. Party in 1907.The activities of the Dashnaktsutyuns were anti-popular. Theirnationalist propaganda did much harm to the cause of theinternational education of the proletariat and the working massesof Armenia and the whole of Transcaucasia.After the bourgeois-democratic revolution of February 1917 theDashnaks supported the policy of the bourgeois Provisional Government;after the October Socialist Revolution they formed acounter-revolutionary bloc with the Mensheviks, Socialist-Revolutionaries,and Musavatists against the Bolsheviks. In 1918-20,the Dashnaks headed the bourgeois-nationalist counter-revolutionarygovernment of Armenia; all their actions helped to convertArmenia into a colony of the foreign imperialists and a base for theAnglo-French interventionist and Russian whiteguards in theirfight against the Soviet government. The working people of Armenia,under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party and with the assistanceof the Red Army, overthrew the Dashnak Government in November1920. With the victory of the Soviets, the Dashnaktsutyunorganisations in Transcaucasia were broken up and suppressed.p. 88In 1907, the Zerno Book Publishers, directed by M. S. Kedrov,decided to bring out a three-volume collection of Lenin’s worksunder the general title Twelve Years. The original contract for thispublication is in the Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninismunder the Central Committee of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union. Only the first volume and part one of thesecond appeared. The first volume contained: The EconomicContent of Narodism and the Criticism of it in Mr. Struve’s Book;The Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats; The Persecutors of the