LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
tions of the Party.” (Extract from resolution of
the Party Conference, 1908). The Bolsheviks, under
 the leadership of Lenin, conducted a determined
ideological and organizational fight against these
attempts at liquidation. At the All-Russian Conference
 held in 1908, at which the Mensheviks were
still represented, Lenin secured the passage of a
resolution which regarded the illegal organization
as the corner-stone, but which at the same time,
recognized the necessity for taking advantage of
all legal possibilities. The resolution particularly
emphasized the necessity for organizing factory
nuclei, to which it still referred as “committees.”
The Mensheviks voted for this resolution, which
We reproduce in this volume. The Mensheviks at
this conference condemned liquidation as a retreat
from revolutionary Marxism. This, however, did
not prevent them from following in the footsteps
of the liquidators. Only a small group of Menshe-Viks
 led by the founder of Russian Marxism, Plechanov,
 repudiated the majority of the Mensheviks.
A group of “liquidators turned inside out,” as
Lenin described them, was left in the Bolshevik
faction, but Lenin resolutely repudiated them.
These were: the Otzovisti (Recallers—from the
work “otozvat,” meaning to recall, Tr.) who de-Manded
 the recall of the Social Democratic deputies
from the Duma; the Ultimatists, who demanded
that the Social-Democratic faction in the Duma,
be presented with an ultimatum, calling upon it to
be a strictly Party faction and to submit to all the

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