The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, 1899-1904 [electronic resource] : documents of the "Economist" opposition to Iskra and early Menshevism / by Richard Mullin.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-592) and index.

Notes on names and dates -- Programme of Rabochee delo -- Review of Lenin's Tasks of the Social Democrats, Rabochee delo no. 1 -- Announcement in Rabochee delo no. 5 -- Plekhanov's Vademecum for the Editorial Board of Rabochee delo and editorial comments on the protest of the 17 in Rabochee delo no. 4 -- Documents of the April 1900 RSDLP Congress attempt -- Boris Krichevskii, Economics and politics in the Russian workers' movement," Rabochee delo no. 7 -- "A historic turn," Listok Rabochego dela no. 6 -- Resolution of an emigre RSDLP Conference, June 1901, Geneva -- Boris Krichevskii, "Principles, tactics and struggle," Rabochee delo no. 10 -- Alexander Martynov, "Exposure literature and proletarian struggle," Rabochee delo no. 10 -- Constitution of the "Russian Iskra Organisation" -- Letters from Iulii Martov to the London Section of the Editorial Board of Iskra -- Report of the Fourth Congress of the Bund -- Articles from Poslednie Izvestiia -- Letter of Ekaterina Alexandrova to Lenin, Krupskaya and Martov -- Pavlovich, Letter to comrades about the second RSDLP Congress -- Resolution of the Second RSDLP Congress "Minority" -- Iulii martov, The struggle with the "state of siege" in the RSDLP -- Georgii Plekhanov, "What is not to be done," Iskra no. 52 -- Georgii Plekhanov, "Something on 'economism' and 'economists,' Iskra no. 53 -- Letter from the Urals and Plekhanov's "Centralism or Bonapartism," Iskra no. 63 & no. 65 -- Georgii Plekhanov, "The working class and the social-democratic intelligentsia," Iskra no. 70 & 71 -- Conclusions.

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"Much has been written about the activity of Lenin and his colleagues on the editorial board of the Iskra newspaper, whereas little has been said about the opponents of Leninism, who unsuccessfully fought for control of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party during the Iskra period. To redress the balance, Richard Mullin has translated 25 documents from this period, most of which express an anti-Lenin view. They include articles from Rabochee Delo, the Jewish Bund's Poslednie Izvestiia and the post-Lenin Iskra, pamphlets by Plekhanov and Martov, the resolutions of Party meetings and some very revealing private correspondence. However, the result is not an anti-Bolshevik polemic: through these documents a clearer, and curiously flattering picture of Lenin's thought and activity is obtained"--Provided by publisher.