DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE PUBLICATION OF AN ORGAN FOR SECTARIANS

carried out a tour of local committees to agitate for the Third Congress; during the revolution of 1905 and later, he took an active part in the publishing activities of the Bolshevik Party in Russia; after October 1917, B.-B. was appointed Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars; from 1920, he was engaged in economic work.

2) Based on this decision of the Congress, V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich undertook, after the Congress, the publication of a popular monthly organ for sectarians, *Rassvet* (Dawn), which was issued from January to September 1904. A total of 9 issues were published.

3) The publication of an organ for sectarians was undertaken by V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich at a moment of sharp divergence between Lenin and the supporters of the "majority" of the Second Congress, on the one hand, and Martov and the supporters of the "minority," on the other, after Plekhanov had co-opted the Martovites into the editorial board of *Iskra*. The editorial board at that moment was in the hands of the "minority," while the Central Committee, headed by Lenin, was Bolshevik. In view of this, the very inception of the publication of the said organ by V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich served as a subject of polemics between the editorial board of the Central Organ and the Central Committee.

4) The second half of the draft resolution, beginning with the words: "As an experiment," was crossed out, apparently by P. A. Krasikov, the third member of the bureau (presidium) of the Congress, who was presiding during the discussion of the resolution by Lenin and Plekhanov, after Martov's amendment was adopted, replacing the second half of the resolution with the words: "The Congress instructs the Central Committee to attend to the question of the proposal contained in the report of Comrade Bonch-Bruyevich." (*Minutes*, p. 329.)

5) L. M. Knipovich (1856–1920) (pseud. Dyadina)—initially a member of the Narodnaya Volya organization, later a Social-Democrat-Iskraist, and subsequently a Bolshevik; an outstanding practical organizer; she began her revolutionary activity in the late 1870s with participation in the Narodnaya Volya movement, joining the group of Rogachev and Sikorsky in Helsingfors (Finland); in 1889, K. moved from Finland to Petersburg, where, alongside her revolutionary activity in the Narodnaya Volya organization, she also conducted extensive cultural and educational work among workers (in the Literacy Committee and in schools for workers); K. exerted a great revolutionary-educational influence both on her worker-students, future revolutionaries and Social-Democrats, and on her fellow workers, teachers (A. A. Yakubova, N. K. Krupskaya, P. F. Kudelli, and others); in the 1890s, she became a Social-Democrat; in the summer of 1895, K. acted as an intermediary in concluding an agreement between the Petersburg League of Struggle and the group of Narodnaya Volya members to which she had previously belonged, concerning the joint publication of a workers' newspaper and the use of the group's Lakhta printing press for printing the publications of the "League"; the agreement was reached, and the Narodnaya Volya members entrusted the compilation of the first issue of the newspaper to the Social-Democrats; and the group's printing press began to print large quantities of their publications for the Social-Democrats, printed V. I. Lenin's pamphlet *On Fines*, and began printing his pamphlet *On Strikes*; in 1896, K. was arrested along with the Narodnaya Volya members, spent a long time in prison, and was then exiled to Astrakhan; when *Iskra* began to be published abroad, K. became a devoted supporter of its views and principles, sent correspondence and various materials for *Iskra*, and strengthened *Iskra*'s ties with the localities; while in exile in Astrakhan, she worked extensively to create an active agency for *Iskra*, to organize transport and the distribution of literature (the "horses" group), and to secure the Baku printing press for *Iskra*; upon completing her exile, K., on the instructions of the editorial board of *Iskra*, went to work in the Tver Committee to strengthen the Iskraist positions in the Northern Union, from which she was elected a delegate to the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. (according to the Congress minutes—Dedov); in 1905, she worked in Odessa and was closely associated with the Odessa Committee; she participated in the Stockholm (Unity) Congress; from 1905 to 1908, she carried out extensive Party work, invariably remaining a consistent Bolshevik; in 1917, K. without hesitation immediately sided with the Bolsheviks; in the last years before her death, due to a serious illness, she was forced to withdraw from Party work.

6) Andrei (real surname not clarified) (Nikolaev)—a worker, delegate to the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. (according to the Congress minutes—Stepanov) from the Kiev Committee, a supporter of the "majority."

7) Petukhov (real surname not clarified)—the Party alias of one of the delegates to the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. from the Ufa Committee (according to the Congress minutes—Muravyov), a worker, a supporter of the "majority."

8) The signature of A. Bazilenkov (A. S. Lokerman) under the draft resolution by Lenin and Plekhanov is absent in the text cited in the Congress minutes (p. 329).

9) This note was made by P. A. Krasikov as the person presiding at the Congress during the discussion of the resolution.

Plekhanov's resolution on the liberals is cited in full in the *Minutes of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.* (1926 ed., p. 330).
We include here, among Lenin's documents, Vladimir Ilyich's amendment to this resolution. Judging by the external appearance of the manuscript (pencil writing, a hasty, sprawling hand), the amendment was written during one of the sessions of the Congress—very possibly the very one (the 57th) at which it was discussed—i.e., no later than August 23, New Style.
In order to define as fully as possible the character and significance of Lenin's amendment to Plekhanov's resolution, we present Lenin's amendment within the overall context of the entire draft resolution by Plekhanov, printing all the non-Leninist text (including the signatures) in small type and highlighting the text of the amendment itself in regular type.

V. I. Lenin.