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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 complicity
 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 Russian
 Social Democratic Congress in 1898 joined the Russian
 Social Democratic Labor Party. It however withdrew
at the Second Congress which rejected the federative principle
 of Party structure. At the Fourth Congress it once
more joined the R. S. D. L. P. and supported the Liquidationists.
 During the war the majority of the Bundists
were patriots and social-pacifists (Liber and Abramovitch).
 During the civil war the Bund became revolutionarized
 and in 1921, under the pressure of the proletarian
 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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