The 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party was held during 25 April - 10 May
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The Menshevik Central Committee had voted against calling the Congress on 7 February 1905 and voted to expel Lenin. Two days later nine of the eleven members of this committee were arrested.
Leonid Krasin
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and Lyubimov initiated contact with the Bolsheviks and signed an agreement with
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and Rumyantsev for the setting up of the 3rd Congress.
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It was the Congress of the
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
only with a handful of
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries.
The factions eme ...
, who organised an alternative conference in
Geneva
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. The meeting was so secretive we do not know the name of the hall they used. Krasin and
Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and ...
were appointed to the "Russian Bureau of the Central Committee" charged with bringing together the two factions.
Besides the routine topics, the agenda included the issues of the
Russian Revolution of 1905
The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...
. Lenin wanted the party to support Japan in its
war on Russia (
Joseph Pilsudski
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used the same tactic). The Congress put pressure on Lenin to return to Russia (he did eventually in November) by relocating the central committee and party newspaper in Russia.
Resolutions
* About constituting of the congress;
* About the armed uprising;
* About provisional revolutionary government;
* About relation to the government tactics before the coup-d'état;
* On the matter about the open political action of the RSDLP;
* About relation to the peasant movement;
* About the breakaway part of the Party;
* About relation to other national social-democratic organizations;
* About practical agreements with social revolutionaries;
* About relations to liberals;
* About propaganda and agitation;
* On the matter of events in the Russian Caucasus region;
* On the matter of events in the Russian Poland;
* About the Central body of the Party.
See also
*
Bolshevik Military Organizations
The Bolshevik Military and Battle Organizations (russian: Военные и боевые организации большевиков) consisted of illegal armed formations ("revolutionaries") of Bolsheviks (RSDLP(b)) in the Russian Empire. They ...
References
Protocols(3-й съезд РСДРП (April–May 1905): Протоколы. (М.: Госполитиздат, 1959))
by V.I. Lenin; in ''
Proletary
''Proletary'' (The Proletarian) was an illegal Russian Bolshevik newspaper edited by Lenin; it was published from September 3, 1906 until December 11, 1909. A total of fifty issues having appeared. Active participants in the editorial work were M ...
'', No. 1, 27 May (14), 1905. Published according to the text in the newspaper ''Proletary''.
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