V. I.

Lenin

The Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.

JANUARY 5–17 (18–30), 1912

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Draft Resolution on the Constitution of the
Conference [1]

RESOLUTION ON THE CONSTITUTION

Whereas:

1. The disintegration and collapse of most Party organisations caused
by the broad stream of counter-revolutionary feeling and ferocious
persecution on the part of tsarism, as well as the prolonged absence of a
practical Party centre, a Central Committee, have all been factors
responsible for the extremely serious position of the Russian S.D.L. Party;

2. At the present moment, due to the revival of the working-class
movement, progressive workers everywhere show an intense desire to
re-establish the illegal organisations of the Party, and in this connection
most local organisations of the R.S.D.L.P. have displayed tremendous and
successful initiative in re-establishing the Party and convening a general
Party conference;

3. The extremely urgent practical tasks of the working-class movement
and of the revolutionary struggle against tsarism (leadership in the
economic struggle, political agitation, and proletarian meetings; elections
to the Fourth Duma, etc.) make it imperative that prompt and most energetic
measures be taken to re-establish a competent practical Party centre,
closely linked with the local organisations;

4. After an interval of more than three years since the last conference
of the R.S.D.L.P., and after many attempts during more than two years to
convene a meeting of representatives of all Party organisations, we have
now succeeded in uniting twenty organisations in Russia around the Russian
Organising Commission which called the present Conference and which several
months ago notified all Social-Democrats of its convocation and invited to the Conference all, without a single
exception, organisations of our Party; furthermore, all organisations were
given an opportunity to take part in our Conference;

5. Despite the delay and a number of arrests all the Party organisations
functioning in Russia, with very few exceptions, are represented at the
present Conference; It is therefore resolved:

The Conference constitutes itself the general Party Conference of the
R.S.D.L.P. which is the supreme Party authority and is pledged to
establish competent central bodies.

| Written not later than January 5 (18), 1912 | |
| First published on January 18, 1937, in Pravda , No. 18 | |

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Notes:
[1]
The heading to the document, has been provided by the Institute of
Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.