LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
21 (p. 65), Peter Alekseev was a weaver. During the ’seven. 
ties he was a strong revolutionary and was prominent 
in the “Trial of the Fifty” (1877). He made a brilliant 
speech to the court, was sentenced to twenty years hard 
labor and died in Siberia. Khalturin was a worker, a 
Narodovoletz, and organizer of the “Northern Union of 
Russian Workers.” He was executed in 1880 for com- 
plicity in an explosion in the Czar’s palace. Myshkin 
and Zhelyabov, see note 15. 
22 (p. 71), Liber (Baer), M. I. Goldman, was a prominent 
member of the Jewish Bund and member of its Central 
Committee. He later became a Menshevik Liquidationist. 
He was a patriot during the imperialist war, an advocate 
of coalition with the bourgeoisie during the revolution, 
and an enemy of the Soviet Government. 
23 (p. 84), “Forward slowly, zig-zag fashion!” A rhymed 
satire on the Economists (their “Marseillaise”) written 
by Martov, who after the Second Party Congress became 
the leader of the Mensheviks. 
24 (p. 101), the Bundists. The bund, the Jewish General 
Labor Union, was formed in 1897 and at the First Rus- 
sian Social Democratic Congress in 1898 joined the Rus- 
sian Social Democratic Labor Party. It however withdrew 
at the Second Congress which rejected the federative prin- 
ciple of Party structure. At the Fourth Congress it once 
more joined the R. S. D. L. P. and supported the Liquida- 
tionists. During the war the majority of the Bundists 
were patriots and social-pacifists (Liber and Abram- 
ovitch). During the civil war the Bund became revolu- 
tionarized and in 1921, under the pressure of the prole- 
tarian masses, joined the Russian Communist Party. 
25 (p. 111), the “Otzovists.” See Introduction, p. 14. 
26 (p. 111), the “Ultimatists.”” See Introduction, p. 14. 
27 (p. 112), the “Godmakers.” See Introduction, p. 14. 
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