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to the ballot box and vote for a Cadet even if that action makes him vomit. A Menshevik in Moscow must vote a pure Social-Democratic ticket, however much his soul may long for the Cadet."

In this instance Lenin had to employ strategy against the Mensheviks: nevertheless, even then he insisted upon Party discipline. This insistence naturally became stronger when the Bolsheviks finally broke off all connections with the Mensheviks and Particularly when the Bolshevik Party came to power,

In his concluding speech at the 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party in 1922 (this was the last Congress of the Russian Communist Party at which Lenin was able to be present) he said:

"We must always bear in mind that the army (our Party) of 600,000 men must be the vanguard of the working class, that without iron discipline it will be impossible to fulfill our task. The fundamental condition for the maintenance and preservation of our strict discipline is loyalty. All the old methods and resources for creating discipline have been destroyed. At the basis of all our activity we have laid only a high degree of thoughtfulness and intelligence. This has enabled us to maintain a discipline that stands higher than the discipline of any other state, and which rests on a basis totally different from that upon which the discipline of capitalist Society is barely maintained, if it is maintained at all."

Lenin frequently took up the question of disci-