Draft Agreement Between the RSDLP CC and The Priboi Group on its Recognition as the RSDLP CC Publishers

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The legal Bolshevik Priboi Publishers was set up in St. Petersburg in early 1913 and operated under the direction of the Party’s Central Committee. It responded to various questions of the working-class movement. Emerging during the “insurance campaign” it issued many publications on workers’ social insurance. Subsequently, on instructions from the Party’s CC, it devoted much attention to the issue of popular agitation and propaganda pamphlets on socio-political and Party questions. In view of the intensified persecution of the workers’ press by the tsarist government at the start of the First World War, Priboi had to cease its activity and resumed it only in March 1917. In 1918, it was integrated with Kommunist Publishers, which had been set up as a merger of several publishing houses (Volna, Zhizn i Znaniye, etc.). p. 291

I n t r o d u c t i o n X)) merits and Important role.

I In view of the advance of the business and the need for official recognition, it should be correctly constituted a s t h e CC P u b l i s h e r s on the following principles:

a) the group shall autonomously conduct the administrative and organisational sector;

b) all books and material which are not urgent shall be submitted to the CC for preliminary review, and the urgent ones shall be published without such submission, but with the CC representative having the right of veto.

In the event of differences and the impossibility of agreement, the question shall be referred to the full CC collegium for the final decision.

The same full collegium shall decide the question of publishing pamphlets in the event of any differences between the CC representative and the Priboi collegium on the question of pamphlets coming in through the CC representative.

c) The CC appoints Comrade X to take charge of the financial side of its publishers.

August 7, 1913