AMENDMENT TO THE RESOLUTION ON THE CONVOCATION OF THE PARTY
CONFERENCE *.
[June 14, 1911. Paris.]
The approaching elections to the Fourth Duma and the resurgence of the workers’ movement on one hand, coupled with the internal party situation on the other—these developments render it urgently necessary to convene a general party conference without delay.
Given the impossibility (for reasons set forth in the resolution on the Plenum) of immediately assembling the Central Committee, which could have promptly taken the initiative to call the conference itself, the meeting of Central Committee members deems it its duty to the Party to assume leadership and resolves:
1)
The party conference must be convened within a maximum of four months—that is, by early October—and practical organizational work toward its convocation must begin without delay; %
2) The conference must be convened according to the same principles (i.e., with the same composition, electoral procedures, agenda, and so forth) that were established in the resolution and letter concerning the conference issued by the last Plenary Session of the Central Committee, held in January 1910.
3) The meeting elects an Organizing Committee for the convocation of the conference (consisting of five members), which is tasked with:
a) Immediately issuing a call to the Party, emphasizing the necessity of the conference and urging all comrades to promptly begin the electoral process and, in general, to engage in the work leading up to the conference **;
b) The Organizing Committee shall enlist the participation of representatives from local Party organizations across Russia, as well as of influential comrades actively engaged in practical mass work, so that they may, as soon as possible, form a Russian working group—pragmatically active and capable of carrying out, with an appropriate degree of autonomy, all practical tasks related to the convocation of the conference, under the overarching supervision of the Organizing Committee—in accordance with the directives laid down in the resolutions and in the Plenary’s letter;
* The text of the resolution, together with its explanatory notes, was drafted by G. Zinoviev. Certain amendments were made in pencil by L. Tyshka. Sub‑paragraph b) of paragraph 3 was struck out and replaced with a proposal submitted by Lenin, written on a separate sheet. Ed.
Further in the manuscript follows a crossed‑out clause: “b) Immediately appoint practical organizers for the conference in Russia, either co-opting them as members of the Organizing Committee or treating them as agents of the latter.” This clause was superseded by Lenin’s amendment. Ed.

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c) To address all regional and local Party organizations in Russia (as well as the Duma Fraction), proposing that they enter into communication with the Organizing Committee;
d) To appeal to all foreign Party organizations, suggesting that they delegate one representative to the Organizing Committee, so that together they may work toward the immediate convocation of the conference.
Note 1: This invitation should be extended to the Mensheviks, the “Forward” group, the “Truth” group, the Bund, and the Latvian Social Democrats. As for the participation of other tendencies in the Organizing Committee, it suffices to invite representatives from among the aforementioned groups, provided that at least one representative from each of these groups is designated as a member of the Committee.
Note 2: Should the Organizing Committee deem it necessary, it reserves the right to increase the number of delegates to the Organizing Committee from among the Menshevik Party members, and to enlist, as a valuable practical worker, Comrade T. Yuri* or Comrade Mark as a member of the Organizing Committee.
4. The Organizing Committee shall commence its work on the convocation of the conference without delay.
1 Note 1 to paragraph 3 of the resolution was adopted by a vote of 4 to 2 (A. Rykov, L. Iogpches, F. Dzerzhinsky, and M. Ozolin against Lenin and Zinoviev).
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STATEMENTS BY V. I. LENIN AND G. E. ZINOVIEV *1.
[Votum separatum]
Statement.
[June 15, 1911. Paris.]
While voting in favor of the resolution as a whole—seeking, to the extent possible, to bring together all Party elements without exception—we firmly protest the admission of foreign “voicing” and “peredovist” elements into the Organizing Committee—that is, representatives of anti‑Party factions who have formed themselves beyond the borders into distinct Fractios, Groups, and who, over the course of the year and a half since the Plenum, have demonstrated that their only capacity lies in acting against the Party, in obstructing its work, and in lending support to the [Stolypin‑style] independent, legalistic Workers’ Party—or to the “returnees.”
N. Lenin.
Grigory.
* L. B. Kameneva. Ed.
** Printed from the manuscript included in the minutes of the meeting. The entire document was drafted by Dokitsyn and signed by him and Zinoviev. Ed.

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1 Lenin and Zinoviev voted against Note 1 to the resolution on the convocation of the Party Conference (see the preceding document, p. 9*2, and Note 1 thereto), but the resolution as a whole was adopted unanimously.