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The Vperyod Group
Published: First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXV. Published according to the manuscript.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1974, Moscow, Volume 16, pages 145-146.
After a series of lectures to the comrades of the Vperyod group and after a final conversation with them on Party tasks and the position of the Vperyod group in the Party, I find it necessary to set out in written form my attitude to the questions in dispute in order to avoid misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
I consider that the platform of the Vperyod group is permeated through and through by views which are incompatible with Party decisions (the resolutions of the December Conference in 1908) and are contrary to those decisions.
The Vperyod platform takes a wrong view of the present period, for this view leaves out of account the economic and political changes in Russia which are finding expression in the autocracyâs new step along the path to conversion into a bourgeois monarchy. Hence in actual fact otzovist tactical conclusions follow from the view adopted by the Vperyod platform.
Consequently, the Vperyod platform is wholly permeated by views that deny the absolute necessity of the Social-Democratic Partyâs participation in the Third Duma and the absolute necessity of building a new type of illegal Party organisation surrounded by a network of legal organisations and necessarily utilising every legal opportunity.
By putting forward in its platform the task of elaborating a so-called âproletarian philosophyâ, âproletarian cultureâ, etc., the Vperyod group in fact comes to the defence of the group of literati who are putting forward anti-Marxist views in this field.
By declaring otzovism âa legitimate shade of opinionâ, the platform of the Vperyod group shields and defends otzovism, which is doing great harm to the Party.
In view of all this, the personal declarations of the majority of comrades of the Vperyod group that they will carry on a sincere correspondence with the Central Organ, that they will fight against the otzovists in a principled and comradely way, that they will co-operate sincerely in utilising legal opportunities, that they will combat all attempts to disrupt the legal workersâ organisations and enterprisesâthese declarations do not inspire confidence and make one fear that the Vperyod group will wage a struggle against the Party line in local work and in the work of preparing for a conference.
My attitude to, the local functionaries of the Vperyod group will depend on their activities in Russia and how they put their declarations into effect.
Lenin