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No one now questions the truth that the Russian proletariat in alliance with the peasantry was able to emerge victorious from the struggle with the bourgeoisie and the landlords, to hold out against intervention and blockade, against unparalleled economic ruin, famine and cold, and to set to work to restore the economic life of Russia only because it was led by an excellent, monolithic, Bolshevik Party, closely welded with the masses. The great founder of this party was V. I. Lenin, Consequently every section of the Communist International must learn how this party was formed and what organizational principles were introduced by V. I. Lenin in its formation. Towards this end the Organisation Department of the Executive Committee of the Communist International is striving to bring to the knowledge of all the sections of the Communist International V. I. Lenin’s fundamental ideas on the question of organization.

Of course the Russian Communist Party did not become what we see it now all in one day. It developed in the struggle and in this book we will endeavor, by means of extracts from the articles and other works of Lenin, to make our comrades acquainted with this struggle.