V. I. Lenin

Thegroup which initiated the establishment of the R.S.D.L.P. library at Geneva
has unanimously decided to hand it over to the Majority Committees’
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Bureau {1} for the general management of the library pending a
decision by the Third Party Congress.

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Notes:
{1}
The Majority Committees’ Bureau ( M.C.B. )—the
Bolsheviks’ organisational centre for preparing the Third Congress of the
R.S.D.L.P., set up on Lenin’s initiative at the end of 1904. In that
period, the Party was in a profound crisis. The Mensheviks had seized the
Party centres and were engaged in disorganising and splitting the Party
organisations in the localities, and disrupting the unity of working-class
action. Meanwhile, the revolutionary situation in the country demanded
cohesion of the Party’s forces and militant unity of the proletariat. This
dictated the need for an early convocation of the Third Party Congress,
which was frustrated in every possible way by the central bodies, which
were in the hands of the Mensheviks. Under Lenin’s leadership, the
Bolsheviks launched a campaign for convening the Congress. A great part was
played by the conference of 22 Bolsheviks called on Lenin’s initiative in
Geneva in August 1904. It adopted an appeal “To the Party”, written by
Lenin, which became a programme for Bolshevik struggle for the convocation
of the Third Congress. Three regional conferences of Bolshevik
committees—Southern, Caucasian and Northern—were held in Russia from
September to December 1904. They set up the Majority Committees’ Bureau,
which included V. I. Lenin, R. S. Zemlyachka, S. I. Gusev, M. N. Lyadov and
M. M. Litvinov. Guided by Lenin, the M.C.B. carried out the practical work
in preparing the Third R.S.D.L.P. Congress.

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