2 “Northern Truth” was one of the titles under which the Bolshevik newspaper “Truth” was published from August 1 (14) to September 7 (20), 1913.
The thirty-first issue was released.
3 What is meant here is the following record of fundraising activities, compiled on the basis of the report and “Northern Truth,” No. 14.
4 “Workers’ Truth” was a daily Bolshevik newspaper; it was published in Petrograd from July 13 (26) to August 1 (14), 1913, replacing “Truth,” which had been shut down on July 5 (18), 1913.

NOTES TAKEN AT THE MEETING
WITH BOLSHEVIK DEPUTIES
OF THE IV STATE DUMA 1
[October 6–7, 1913]
Budget for Public Education
The Formula of Transition—
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Instruction to Learn
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The agitation surrounding the motives behind the December 1908 resolution2 is clear—and it follows that resolutions concerning formulas should be put forward, while the exceptional groups must take a stand against them.
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1 These notes were apparently taken by V. I. Lenin
at a preliminary meeting with Bolshevik deputies of the IV State Duma, which was held in
Poronino
on October 6–7,
1913.
The meeting addressed the question of tactics in Duma work.
From the rostrum of the State Duma, workers’ deputies spoke the truth about the dire plight of laborers in Tsarist Russia, propagating revolutionary ideas. The work of the Duma faction was one of the most important legal forms of party activity—and it remained constantly in Lenin’s field of vision. Participants in the preliminary meeting discussed specific questions: which draft laws should Bolshevik deputies draft and submit to the Duma for the purposes of revolutionary agitation; how to vote on individual articles of draft laws and on budgets brought before the Duma; whether it was permissible to vote for the formulas of other parties, or for the government’s buyout of private railways; whether the Social-Democratic faction had rightly refrained from voting in favor of the Cadets’ proposal for a seven‑hour working day for postal and telegraph employees, and so forth. On these issues, a fundamental resolution was prepared—written by V. I. Lenin under the title “On the Social-Democratic Work in the Duma”—and subsequently adopted at an expanded meeting of the Central Committee, attended by all delegates (see Complete Collected Works, Volume 24, pp. 54–53).
2 We are referring to the resolution of the Fifth Conference of the RSDLP (All‑Russian, 1908), “On the Social-Democratic Duma Faction” (see “The CPSU in the Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences, and Plenums of the Central Committee.” Moscow, 1970, Vol. 1, pp. 252–255).
3 A. I. Guchkov was a major capitalist, organizer, and leader of the Octobrist Party. During the First Russian Revolution, he supported the government’s policy of ruthless repression against the working class and the peasantry.
In
1910–1911, he served as Chairman of the III State Duma. During the First World War of Imperialist Aggression—
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