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

NOTES519767778Dresden Parteitag—the Dresden Congress of the German Social-Democratic Party, held September 13-20 (new style), 1903.The Congress adopted an opportunist resolution on the admissibilityof S.D. participation in the bourgeois press. p. 140The Fourth Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. (“Third All-Russian”)was held in Helsingfors (Helsinki) November 5-12 (18-25), 1907,shortly after the elections to the Third Duma. Twenty-seven delegatesattended the Conference: ten Bolsheviks, four Mensheviks,five Polish S.D.’s, five Bundists, and three Lettish S.D.’s.The agenda of the Conference contained the following questions:the tactics of the S.D. group in the Duma, the question of groupcentres, and the strengthening of the C.C.’s contacts with the localorganisations, and the participation of Social-Democrats in thebourgeois press. The Conference also discussed the question of givinga name to Social-Democratic representation in the Duma. Thereport on the tactics of the S.D. group in the Third Duma was madeby Lenin. His evaluation of the June-the-third regime and the tasksof the Party was challenged by the Mensheviks and the Bundists,who spoke in favour of supporting the Cadets and the “Left” Octobristsin the Duma. By a majority of votes, the Conference adoptedthe Bolshevik resolution proposed on behalf of the St. PetersburgCity Conference. It also adopted the Bolshevik resolution on theinadmissibility of S.D. participation in the bourgeois press,directed against the Menshevik publicists, especially Plekhanov,who had criticised the decisions of the Third Conference of theR.S.D.L.P. (the “Second All-Russian”) in the Left Cadet newspaperTovarishch. The Conference named S.D. representation inthe Duma “the Social-Democratic group”.In view of the fact that the Menshevik centre, behind the back ofthe Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P., was making contactswith the local committees, the Conference outlined measures forstrengthening contacts between the C.C. of the Party and the localorganisations.By adopting Leninist decisions on fundamental issues, theFourth Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. equipped the Party withcorrect, Marxist tactics in the struggle to win the masses duringthe period of reaction.The minutes of the Conference have not been found. The proceedingsand decisions were extensively reported by the Bolshevik newspaperProletary, No. 20, November 19, 1907. p. 141Lenin is referring to the agrarian laws drafted by Stolypin and promulgatedby the tsarist government in November 1906. A ukase,“On Amendments to Certain Enactments Regarding Peasant LandTenure and Ownership”, was issued on November 9 (22), 1906;after being passed by the Duma and the Council of State, it becameknown as the Law of June 14, 1910. Another ukase was issued onNovember 15 (28), 1906, “On the Issue of Loans by the PeasantLand Bank on Security of Allotment Lands”. Under these laws thepeasant was given the right to take possession of his allotment as