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
Leonid Borisovich Krasin (; – 24 November 1926) was a Russians, Russian Soviet Union, Soviet politician, engineer, social entrepreneur, Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. In 1924 he became the first List of ambassadors of Russia to ...
and Lyubimov initiated contact with the Bolsheviks and signed an agreement with
Gusev and Rumyantsev for the setting up of the 3rd Congress.
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It was the Congress of the
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
only with a handful of
Mensheviks
The Mensheviks ('the Minority') were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. Mensheviks held more moderate and reformist ...
, who organised an alternative conference in
Geneva
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. The meeting was so secretive that the name of the hall they used is still unknown. Krasin and
Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer and Bolshevik revolutionary. He was a polymath who pioneered blood transfusion, a ...
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, was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, t ...
. Lenin wanted the party to support Japan in its
war on Russia (
Joseph Pilsudski 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
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Bolshevik Military Organizations
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 ...
'', No. 1, 27 May (14), 1905. Published according to the text in the newspaper ''Proletary''.
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