LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
in 1883, and a member of the editorial board of “Iskra.”
She then became a Menshevik, and during the war was
a rabid patriot and opponent of the Bolsheviks.
12 (p. 37), “Zarya” (The Dawn), a popular scientific Marx-
ian journal was published in 1901 to 1902 under the
editorship of Plekhanov, Vera Zasulitch and P. Axelrod
with the collaboration of the contributors to the old
“Iskra.” A number of articles from the pen of Lenin
appeared in ‘“Zarya.”
13 (p. 40), “Nakanune” (On the Eve) was a Socialist Revo-
lutionary journal published by Serebyakov in London.
14 (p. 40), Plekhanov and the “Plekhanovists” were at that
time revolutionary Marxists. After the split of the Rus-
sian Social Democratic Labor Party into Bolsheviks and
Mensheviks, Plekhanov was at first on the side of the
Bolsheviks, but he went over to the Mensheviks. During
the imperialist war he was a patriot. He died in 1918.
15 (p. 41), Myshkin was a prominent figure in the “Trial of
the 193” (Zemlevoltzi) in 1877-8. Zhelyabov was a prom-
inent Narodovoletz and, with Rogatchev and Perovskaya,
the chief organizer of the assassination of Alexander II;
all three were executed. Vera Figner was also a prom-
inent member of the group “Narodnaya Volia” and was
imprisoned for 20 years in the Schliisselburg Fortress.
16 (p. 45), C. O., the Central Organ (at that time “Iskra”).
17 (p. 47), the Russian Social Democratic Party (R. S. D.
1. P.) was founded at the First Party Congress in 1898.
18 (p. 51), “The Foreign League of Russian Revolutionary
Social Democrats” was founded by the “Iskrists” at the
beginning of the twentieth century as a counterbalance
to the opportunist ‘Foreign Union of Russian Social
Democrats.” After the Party split at the second congress
a bitter struggle began within the League also, in which
the Mensheviks finally gained the majority.
19 (p. 63), Nadezhdin. See note 6.
20 (p. 65), The New “Iskra,” i. e. the Menshevik “Iskra”
which fell into the hands of the Mensheviks after the
Second Congress.
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