Collected Works - Volume 7

The major item in it is his book, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, which elaborated the organisational principles of the Bolshevik Party. Many of the works in the present volume—the “Account of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.”, the article “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. Reply by N. Lenin to Rosa Luxemburg”, the speeches at the Congress of the League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy Abroad and the sessions of the Party Council, and the resolutions moved there, the draft appeal “To the Party”, and the pamphlet “The Zemstvo Campaign and Iskra’s Plan”—are directed against the Mensheviks’ opportunism in organisational and tactical questions and against their splitting activities. The letters included in this volume—“Letter to the Members of the Central Committee”, “To Five Members of the Central Committee”, “Letter to Central Committee Agents and Committee Members of the R.S.D.L.P. Siding with the Second Party Congress Majority” and the “Letter to Glebov (V. A. Noskov)”—illustrate Lenin’s fight against the conciliators.