1

Liberal Bogucharski – non-party journal leftist (very leftist, very militant, very pro-worker democrat Martov).

S-d. salon-style in the radical-bourgeois salon.

*The same. Ed.

Intelligentsia journal, without any connections to the masses (à la "Russian Wealth")…

Class significance in the general structure of Russian life? Clearer. Liberal-bourgeois democracy (Trudoviks; People's Socialists; Liquidators; left Populists) – proletarian democracy… "Unity"? (A broken stick)…

2

1. The journal "Contemporary" – one of the phenomena testifying to "new currents."

2. Beginning and continuation. From Bogucharski + Kuskov + Prokopovich (non-party journal) to the bloc SRs + Liquidators (with isolated figures {Bonch-Bruevich, Steklov} of various tendencies).

Plekhanov's special position.

{Novotorzhski on him, No. 5, 81; Streltsov, No. 6, 85; Sukhanov, No. 6, p. 59.

3. Bogucharski (the one who remained). His chatterings à la Kadets.

4. After the turn: Sukhanov.

5. In the company of Populists

(L. Martov).

6. Beginnings…

7. Relationship of parties (contra circles).

8. Assessment of the new

Written in May 1914

First published in 1939 in the journal "Proletarian Revolution" No. 1

Printed from the manuscript