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pline. And it is thanks to him that in the Russian Communist Party we have a voluntary, intelligent discipline, which has not its equal in any other mass Party. More than once the enemies of the Party have rejoiced (during the Party discussion, for example) at the impending collapse of the discipline of the Russian Communist Party. But on each occasion the Party emerged from these trials stronger than ever. The fundamental idea running through this discipline has been hitherto, and will remain, the following: the interests of the proletarian revolution and of the Communist Party stand above all.

However, in order that such a discipline may be really maintained, complete unity of views on fundamental questions is necessary. We know that Lenin created this unity of views first of all in the Bolshevist section of the Party, and later throughout the whole Party, and resolutely fought against all those who strove to disturb this unity. He was a determined opponent of all groupings and factions within the Bolshevik Party; for they inevitably lead to the weakening of the Party, and represent a fatal danger to its unity and to the rule of the Soviet government. When certain deviations were revealed during the discussion on the trade unions in 1921, Lenin, at the 10th Congress of the B. C. P., demanded that these deviations be resolutely condemned. "We," he said, "are a Party fighting amidst acute difficulties. We must say: in order that unity may be preserved certain deviations must