LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
again without difficulty to illegal conditions when 
circumstances demanded it. 
What form of organization the Russian Social 
Democratic Labor Party assumed at that time can 
be seen from the following description of the St. 
Petersburg organization written by Comrade Lenin 
in an article entitled: “The St. Petersburg Split in 
1907’. He wrote: 
“The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party is 
organized democratically. This means that the 
business of the Party is conducted by its members, 
directly or through representatives, and that all 
members are equal without exception. All the of- 
ficials, all the leading bodies, all the institutions of 
the party are elected, responsible and may be re- 
called. The business of the Petersburg organiza- 
tion is conducted by the elected Petersburg Com- 
mittee of the Russian Social Democratic Labor 
Party. The supreme body of the Petersburg or- 
ganization, in view of it being impossible to gather 
all the members together at one time, (nearly 6,000 
members), is a delegate conference of the organiza- 
tion. All the members of the party have the right 
to send delegates to this conference: one delegate 
for a definite number of Party members. For ex- 
ample, at the last conference, it was decided to elect 
one delegate for every 50 members. These del- 
egates must be elected by all the members of the 
Party, and the decision of the delegates is the su- 
Preme and final decision obligatory for the whole 
of the local organization. But this is not all. In order 
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