📅 13 March 1898
A small congress declared the formation of the RSDLP, although arrests and weak coordination left the organization fragile. Its founding reflected labor, socialist, and national movements across the...
📅 23 August 1903
Disputes over membership, organization, and strategy produced factions later known as Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. The labels did not mean fixed, unified camps from the outset: alliances and positions...
📅 23 April 1906
The RSDLP debated whether to participate in the new parliament created after the 1905 upheaval. Lenin supported using the Duma while maintaining revolutionary opposition, a tactical shift showing that...
📅 1 May 1904
Written after the 1903 congress split, Lenin reconstructed the arguments over party membership and central authority from congress minutes and documents. The polemic gave organizational questions a...
📅 1 August 1906
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks disputed whether land should be municipalized, nationalized, or divided among peasants. Lenin’s writing engaged peasants’ immediate demands and competing socialist...
