V. I.

Lenin

The Fifth (All-Russian) Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.

December 21–27, 1908 (January 3–9, 1909)

5

Statement by the Bolsheviks [1]

STATEMENT OF FACTS

With reference to Dan’s statement about agreements between groups within
the ’Bolsheviks’ ranks, we place on record that our agreements are between Party
people working within the Party and writing in the Party organs, whereas the
Mensheviks, both in their resolution and in all their’ activities, enter into
agreements between Party people and non-Party people who secretly work against
the Party, liquidate it and carry on a policy of opportunism without precedent
in any European Social-Democratic Party.

| Written on December 26, 1908 (January 8, 1909) | |
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| First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXV | |
| Published according to the manuscript | |

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Notes:
[1]
This heading has been given by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.