Russian Social Democracy and the Legal Labour Movement, 1906-14 [electronic resource

To attribute to opportunism an invariable preference for a definite form of organisation, that is, decentralisation, is to miss the essence of opportunism. ## Rosa Luxemburg It is one thing to look critically at the 'Leninist' way of breaking with opportunism, and is quite another to return to the dead-end of social democracy. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv The Background: the Days of Freedom....Pages 1-27 Front Matter....Pages 29-29 A Year of Chaos....Pages 31-55 The Emergence of the Legal Activists....Pages 57-79 The Legal Activists Take the Lead....Pages 81-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 The Growth of Tension within Russia....Pages 109-131 The Elections to the Fourth Duma....Pages 133-157 The Possibility of Unity....Pages 159-184 Conclusion....Pages 185-194 Back Matter....Pages 195-239