LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
7 (p. 19), “Rabochaya Mysl,” the most rabid organ of the
Economists (1897-1902).
© (p. 27), B-v was the pseudonym of B. V. Savinkov who
was then a Social Democrat and a member of the Petersburg
Fighting Union. While in exile Savinkov turned
Narodnik (Populist) and joined the Socialist Revolutionaries.
In 1905 he joined the “Fighting Organization”
formed by the provocateur Azev. Practically every prominent
terrorist act of the Socialist Revolutionaries in
recent times was inspired by Savinkov. During the war
he was a rabid patriot; in 1917 he became the right hand
of Kerensky, and after the October Revolution an active
counter-revolutionary in the pay of the French capitalists.
3 (p. 80), “Credo,” the statement of fate of the Economists.
10 (p. 34), Zemlevoltzi. “Zemlia i Volia” (Land and Freedom)
was an organization formed in 1876 by certain nonpolitical
rebels belonging to the Narodniki (Populists)
who believed that Socialism could be brought about
through the instrumentality of the peasant village communes,
In 1897 “Zemlia i Volia” split up into the “Narodovoltzi”
and “Chernyperedeltzi” The group “Chernyi
Peredel” (General Division of Land) which did not remain
in existence very long (it was from this group that
the first Russian Marxists preceded—Plekhanov, Zasulitch
and others, ‘who in 1883 formed the first Social
Democratic organization, “The Group for the Emancipation
of Labor”) fought for the maintenance of the old
tactics. The group ‘“Narodnaya Volia” (Popular Freedom)
advocated the use of terrorism in the fight against
the autocracy and its agents. It was at the orders of the
Executive Committee woof the ‘“Narodnaya Volia” that
Czar Alexander II was assassinated on March 1, 1881.
In the ‘eighties, the Czarist government with the aid of
spies and provocateurs put an end to the “Narodovoltzi”
as an active fighting revolutionary organization,
11 (p. 37), Vera Zasulitch was formerly a member of the
group “Zemlia i Volia,” then a member of the Marxian
“Group for the Emancipation of Labor” which was formed
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