Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1976.
Lenin devoted several months to the writing of One Step Forward Two Steps Back (The Crisis in Our Party), making a careful study of the minutes and resolutions of the Second Party Congress, of the speeches of each of the delegates and the political groupings at the Congress, and of the Central Committee and Party Council documents.
The book evoked fury among the Mensheviks. Plekhanov demanded that the Central Committee disavow it. The conciliators on the Central Committee tried to prevent its publication and circulation.
Table of Contents
Preface... 1
A. The Preparation For The Congress... 6
B. Significance of the Groupings at the Congress... 9
C. Beginning of the Congress. The Organizing Committee Incident... 14
D. Dissolution of the Yuzhny Rabochy Group... 26
E. The Equality of Languages Incident... 31
F. The Agrarian Programme... 41
G. The Party Rules. Comrade Martov’s Draft... 52
H. Discussion on Centralism Before the Split Among the Iskra-ists... 64
I. Paragraph One of the Rules... 69
J. Innocent Sufferers From a False Accusation of Opportunism... 99
K. Continuation of the Discussion of the Rules. Composition of the Council... 114
L. Conclusion of the Debate On The Rules. Co-Option To The Central Bodies. Withdrawal of the Rabocheye Dyelo Delegates... 122
M. The Elections. End of the Congress... 140
N. General Picture of the Struggle at the Congress. The Revolutionary and Opportunist Wings of the Party... 175
O. After the Congress. Two Methods of Struggle... 193
P. Little Annoyances Should Not Be Allowed to Mar a Big Pleasure... 218
Q. The New Iskra. Opportunism In Questions Of Organisation...233
R. A Few Words On Dialectics. Two Revolutions... 273
Appendix
The Incident of Comrade Gusev and Comrade Deutsch... 281
Notes... 294
