LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
tions of the Party.” (Extract from resolution of 
the Party Conference, 1908). The Bolsheviks, un- 
der the leadership of Lenin, conducted a determined 
ideological and organizational fight against these 
attempts at liquidation. At the All-Russian Confer- 
ence 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, Ple- 
chanov, 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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