LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
revolutionary movement of the world, such as nc 
other country possessed. 
Moreover, Bolsheviks, having grown up on this 
granite theoretical basis, passed through fifteen 
years of practical history (1903-1917), which for 
richness of experience has no equal in the world. 
For no country during these fifteen years has under- 
gone nearly as much in the way of revolutionary 
experience, or has witnessed such rapid and varied 
changes in the forms of the movement—legal and 
illegal, peaceful and violent, underground and 
above-ground, closed circles and mass movements, 
parliamentary and terroristic. In no country in the 
world has there been concentrated in so brief a 
period such a wealth of forms, shades and methods 
of struggle on the part of all classes of modern 
society, a struggle, which, owing to the backward- 
ness of the country and the heavy yoke of Czarism, 
developed with peculiar rapidity, and which mas- 
tered with particular eagerness and success the 
“last word” in the political experience of America 
and Europe, . ., . 
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