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instructions of the Party centres, or else, resign their membership of the Duma, and the Bogostroyitelli (God Creators, Tr.), who, together with the bourgeois intelligentzia, began to create a "Socialist god" in the period of the reaction. In the resolution passed at an enlarged conference of the editors of the Bolshevik central organ "Proletarii" and representatives from the largest proletarian centres, held in 1909, we read that "in the ranks of the Bolshevik fraction there are elements which are not sufficiently imbued with a proletarian point of view. These elements more and more reveal their lack of Social Democratic consistency, and come more and more sharply in opposition to the fundamental revolutionary Social Democratic tactics. During the past year they have been creating a tendency to formulate a theory of Otzovism and Ultimatism, but which, in fact, reduces to a principle and renders more profound the false impressions concerning Social Democrats, parliamentarism and Social Democratic work in the Duma … In spite of their revolutionary phraseology, Otzovism and Ultimatism, to a considerable degree, represent the reverse sides of constitutional illusions inspired by the hope that the Duma itself can satisfy the pressing needs of the people and are actually substituting proletarian ideology by petty-bourgeois tendencies. So-called Ultimatism is causing no less harm to the cause of Social Democracy than open Otzovism. Politically Ultimatism at the present time, in no way differs from Otzovism. By