Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 3 - From Marx to Mao

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part of The Development of Capitalism in Russia had been
set up in type, and so Lenin decided to make reference to
Kautsky’s work in the preface. On March 17 (29), 1899, Lenin
sent a postscript to the preface. “If only it is not late,” he
wrote, “I would very much like to have it printed.... Maybe
even if the preface is already set, it will still be possible to add
the postscript?” The addition to the preface got into the hands
of the censor and was changed. In a letter dated April 27 (May 9),
1899, Lenin wrote of this: “Have heard that my P.S. to the preface
was late, fell into the hands of the preliminary censor and
‘suffered,’ I think.” p. 26
In the second edition of The Development of Capitalism in Russia
the numbering of the sections was changed through Lenin’s
introduction of several additions. The item to which Lenin
refers the reader is in Chapter II, §XII, C, p. 162 and p. 168.
p. 27
On February 17, 1899, in the Society for the Promotion of Russian
Industry and Trade, a discussion took place on a paper
entitled “Is It Possible to Reconcile Narodism with Marxism?”
Representatives of liberal Narodism as well as “Legal Marxists”
took part in the discussion. V. P. Vorontsov (V. V.) said that
those who represented the “modern trend of Marxism in the West”
stood closer to Russian Narodism than to the Russian Marxists.
A brief report of this meeting appeared on February 19 (March 3),
1899, in the reactionary St. Petersburg paper, Novoye Vremya
(New Times). p. 28
The second edition of The Development of Capitalism in Russia
was published in 1908. An announcement of its publication
appeared in March 1908, in Knizhnaya Letopis (Book Chronicle),
Issue No. 10.
For the second edition Lenin went over the text, eliminated
printer’s errors made numerous additions and wrote a new
preface, dated July 1907. In the second edition of The Development
of Capitalism in Russia Lenin replaced the expressions
“disciples,” and “supporters of the working people,” which he
had employed so as to pass the censorship, by the forthright
terms Marxists, Socialists. He also replaced allusions to “the
new theory” by references to Marx and Marxism.
Lenin made considerable additions, employing the very latest
statistics. He introduced into the second chapter a new section
(XI), devoted to an analysis of the results of the Army-Horse
Censuses of 1896-1900. He cited new facts in confirmation of
his previous conclusions about the development of capitalism
in Russia, in particular new factory statistical material; gave
an analysis of the results of the general population census of
1897, which provided a fuller picture of the class structure of
Russia (see Chapter VII, §V, pp. 501-507, Addendum to
second edition).