Date: 1905
Source: ru:LS/v16

IIIrd Congress and Its Resolutions b. N.
III–III11 Congress II Its Resolutions.
[June 1905, Paris.]
A)
Why did the Congress and the Conference come into being?
B)
Organizational work at the Congress and the Conference.
B)
Tactical Questions
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A)
11. The Legality of Convening the Congress Without the Council/
I 2. The Validity of the Congress Itself.
I
3. Why Was It Not Advisable to Attend the Congress?
I
(The Transformation of a Single Congress into Two.)
B)
Three Main Points of Organizational Work for the IIIrd Congress:
Bb)
1) § 1.
2) “Centralization.”
3) “Guarantee of the Rights of Minority Groups.”
Bv) The Organizational Statutes of the Conference.
(1) “Leading Collectives” (?)
(2) “Local Organizations” (?—and § 1?).
(3) The Central Committee and the Executive Committee—and the O.K.
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(4) The Terms of Agreement at the Congress?
Bj
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4 1,*** Provisional Revolutionary Government.
3 2. Armed Uprising].
2 3. The Contemporary Political Situation).
4. Relations with Other Revolutionary and Opposition Parties.****
5. [4.] 5. The Executive Committee.
4. [3.] 4. The Central Committee = the Executive Committee + Representatives from Regional Committees = the Conference.
3. [2.] 3. Regional Committees—elected by the Regional Congresses.
2.
2. Regional Congresses—delegates from the leading collectives.
* (The words “without the Council” are written in pencil. Ed.
** Written in pencil; the following text was penned in ink over the pencil writing. Ed.
*** The first row of numbers is written in pencil. Ed.
**** The subsequent text was written in pencil. Ed.

1. The leading collective = the committee
all district committees — plus a special group — the committee reports to the district committees and delivers!
(represents; there, an “inquiry” is conducted.
The committee is almost entirely composed of elected members of the local district committees.
From the compliments of the present-day comrades:
“a gross breach of promise,” “the imposition of a party congress,”
“an unheard-of crime,” “a betrayal of party trust,” “a brazen manipulation,”
“substitution,” “a violation of the will of the proletariat”
K*. 13) 1
The conditions stipulated that, as a matter of principle, every member of the party should be represented—that is, “the mass of its actual members.” p. 8 “Can tactical questions really be decided without prior discussion among the entire party? Is it not easy—
mentally!... to envision an armed uprising... even in literature—though debates have only just begun” (p. 10 “we have heard” (pp. 10–11).2
1 All page references refer to the pamphlet “The First All-Russian Conference of Party Workers. Separate Supplement to ‘Iskra.’ Geneva, 1905.”
2 The pamphlet (see note 1) states: “We hear that, in light of the approaching revolution, a political alliance with the Socialist Revolutionaries is necessary—and that the very same newly emerged candidates for party leadership are seeking to overturn the resolutions of the II Congress concerning the Socialist Revolutionaries. Can such a change really occur simply by a show of hands from delegates, backed by anywhere from one to six committee members?”
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Lenin’s Open Letter was written in response to Karl Kautsky’s article “Die Spaltung der russischen Sozialdemokratie” (“The Split in Russian Social Democracy”),
in Leipziger Volkszeitung, No. 435.