DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE PUBLICATION OF DECISIONS
OF THE CONFERENCE \
[January 8, 1909]
The Conference requests the ** Central Committee to take measures to *** publish
[the notification] of the Conference’s resolutions and submitted draft resolutions****,
and, if possible, also the minutes of its proceedings or***** a concise report *******
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STATEMENT BY MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AND MEMBERS OF THE CONFERENCE,
BOLSHEVIKS II POLYAKOV *******.
[January 8, 1909]
In response to the statement made by Comrade Dan and others regarding the right
of the Central Committee to exercise a veto over erroneous resolutions of the Fraction, we declare that:
1) The London Congress rejected Martov’s amendments, which sought to weaken the Central Committee’s influence over the Fraction’s activities, and firmly adopted the position that the Duma Fraction should be subordinated to the Central Committee;
2) In the plenary sessions of the Central Committee,
where Mensheviks such as Kostrov, Martynov, and others were present, the question of the veto was, in practice, decided on a case‑by‑case basis—and the aforementioned Menshevik members of the Central Committee unconditionally recognized the Central Committee’s right to exercise this veto;
3) Within the eight-member Central Committee, Menshevik comrades Igor ******** and Yakov
voted twice alongside the other members in favor of imposing a veto on specific issues;*
Lenin’s draft contains a number of amendments, primarily introduced by Ledder and noted in the following footnotes. At the top of the manuscript, there is a marginal note reading “accepted,” apparently penned by the secretary who kept the minutes. Ed.
** In the manuscript, the word “requests” has been crossed out in Ledder’s hand and replaced with the word “proposes.” Ed.
*** In the manuscript, Ledder inserted the word “more promptly” by hand. Ed.
**** In this passage, the secretary added by hand: “and statements of a principled nature.” Ed.
***** In the manuscript, the words “if possible, and its minutes or” —
were crossed out and replaced by Ledder with a single word: “also.” Ed.
****** At the end of the resolution, Ledder added the words “about it” by hand
and signed beneath the resolution with his name (“Ledder”), Ed.
******* The text of the statement was written by G. Zinoviev, signed by him and
by a number of other conference participants—including Lenin. Ed.
******** B. ÏJ. Gorev-Goldman. Ed.

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on specific issues and never subjected this right of the Central Committee to doubt;
4) that the Duma Fraction has never officially questioned—even for a moment—the Central Committee’s right to exercise a veto;
5) that in the party press, regardless of factional differences, this right of the Central Committee has never been denied since the London Congress;
6) that we can only interpret Comrade Dan’s statement as an attempt to turn the Fraction against the Central Committee and the Party—nothing less than an open threat of schism and a step toward aiding the liquidators in their efforts to dismantle our contemporary party organization.
Members of the Central Committee: Grigory (delegate to the London Congress).
Tyshka (delegate to the London Congress).
Maksimov (delegate to the London Congress).
Lenin (delegate to the London Congress).
V. Sergeev * (delegate to the London Congress).
Marat *\
Conference delegates: Lyadov, delegate to the London Congress.
Valerian ***, delegate to the London Congress.