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

NOTES531147147a148149150151152R.S.D.L.P., issue No. 1, February 1908. The article was reprintedin the newspaper Proletary, No. 27, March 26 (April 8) of thesame year with a postscript by Lenin (see p. 439 of this volume).Sotsial-Demokrat—Central Organ of the R.S.D.L.P., anillegal newspaper, published from February 1908 to January 1917.Issue No. 1 appeared in Russia, but thereafter the paper was publishedabroad, first in Paris, then in Geneva. The Editorial Board,according to a decision of the Central Committee of theR.S.D.L.P., was made up of representatives of the Bolsheviks, theMensheviks, and the Polish Social-Democrats. Over eighty articlesand other items of Lenin’s were published in Sotsial-Demokrat. Onthe paper’s Editorial Board Lenin fought for a consistent Bolshevikline. Some of the editors (Kamenev and Zinovyev) took aconciliatory stand towards the liquidators and tried to obstructLenin’s policy. The Menshevik editors Martov and Dan sabotagedthe work of the Editorial Board while at the same time openlydefending the liquidators in Golos Sotsial-Demokrata. Lenin’suncompromising fight against the liquidators led to Martov and Danretiring from the Editorial Board in June 1911. From December 1911onwards Sotsial-Demokrat was edited by Lenin. p. 432S tolichnaya Pochta (Metropolitan Post)—a Left-Cadet newspaper,published in St. Petersburg from October 1906 to February 1908.p. 432Bezgolovy (Headless)—ironically applied by Lenin to the Bezzaglavtsi,a group of bourgeois liberals (S. N. Prokopovich, Y. D. Kuskova,etc.) formed around the journal Bez Zaglaviya (Without aTitle). In 1908, the Bezzaglavtsi published the newspapers S tolichnayaPochta and Nasha Gazeta. p. 436Nasha Gazeta (Our Newspaper)—a newspaper of a semi-Cadettrend, published in St. Petersburg from 1904 to 1908. p. 439Proletary (The Proletarian), No. 29, April 16 (29), 1908, publisheda letter of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. to the localorganisations concerning the work of the Social-Democratic deputiesin the Duma. p. 439Lenin is possibly referring to the article “Political Sketches” publishedin the symposium Nasha Tribuna (Our Tribune), Book I,Vilna, 1907. The writer of the article—M-d-m (Medem), aprominent Bundist, argued that after the defeat of the revolution of1905-07 Russian Social-Democracy should drop such revolutionaryslogans as that calling for a constituent assembly. p. 445Al. Al.—A. A. Bogdanov. p. 448Lenin refers to the collection of articles by V. Bazarov, Berman,A. Lunacharsky, P. Yushkevich, A. Bogdanov, I. Gelfond, andS. Suvorov. p. 448