LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
the Bolshevik Party is the factory nuclei. To these
nuclei the Party devotes most of its attention. At
all non-Party Congresses, conferences and on
elected bodies, Communist fractions are organized,
the task of which is to increase the Party’s influence
and to secure the acceptance of its policy by the
non-Party organizations. Hence we see that Comrade
 Lenin’s fundamental idea of factory nuclei and
fractions in non-Party institutions and organizations
 is carried to its logical conclusion.
The Reorganization of the Party.
As we saw above, prior to 1905, Lenin stood for
the narrow, exclusive organization of professional
revolutionaries and was against the election of
committeemen. Owing to the necessity for extreme
secrecy, in those days the election of committeemen
was impossible.* In 1905 conditions changed, and
Lenin raised the question of the reorganization of
the Party. He suggested a wider form of organization
 of the Party nucleus “less strictly defined” and
“freer”, but only in comparison with the previous
“circles of professional revolutionaries.” The Party
was made democratic and placed on the elective
basis. Nevertheless, the illegal apparatus of the
party was preserved, and this enabled it to go back
* At the present time, even under illegal conditions in some
places, it is possible to elect Party officials, for not everywhere
 where the Party is compelled to exist underground, is
there such a political regime ag existed in Russia under the
Czar.

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