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the falsificators of revolutionary Marxism, that enabled him to mould the monolithic Bolshevik Party, without which the Russian proletariat could never have achieved its brilliant victory.

In 1910, the last effort was made to come to an understanding with the Mensheviks. A plenary meeting of the Central Committee was convened at which the Menshevik liquidators were present. Lenin had already given up all hope of coming to an understanding with them, but the illusion still prevailed in the Bolshevik faction that it would be possible to bring the Menshevik Liquidators to the path of a revolutionary Social Democracy. That is why Lenin agreed to this joint meeting being called. At this meeting, a resolution was passed unanimously, and in this resolution we read:

"The historical conditions of the Social-Democratic movement in the epoch of bourgeois counterrevolution inevitably give rise, as a manifestation of the bourgeois influence on the proletariat, to a repudiation of the illegal Social Democratic Party, to a desire to minimize its role and significance, to attempts to modify the program and tactics, the tasks and the slogans of revolutionary Social Democracy, etc., on the one hand, and on the other hand, it gives rise to a repudiation of Social Democratic work in the Duma, and the utilization of legal possibilities, to the failure to understand the importance of both these forms of activity, to lack of ability to adapt revolutionary democratic tactics