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Contents ........................................................................................................................... 4

Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................... 5

Abstract ............................................................................................................................ 6

Notes on Names, Texts and Dates ................................................................................... 7

Chapter One: Historiographical and Historical Context ............................................. 8

i) 1899-1903 in the Context of Russian Social-Democratic History and Theory ......... 12

ii) Historiographical Trends in the Study of Lenin and the RSDLP ............................. 23

iii) How the thesis develops previous work ................................................................... 39

A: The Struggle Between Revolutionary Marxism and Economism...............................50

Chapter Two: Autumn 1899-Summer 1900: Ideology ............................................... 51

i) Two Contrasting Programmes ................................................................................... 55

ii) Lenin and Rabochee Delo ......................................................................................... 64

iii) A Secret Alliance is Exposed ................................................................................... 71

iv) Economism ............................................................................................................... 76

v) Some Conclusions ..................................................................................................... 82

Chapter Three: Autumn 1899-Autumn 1901: Organisational Tactics ...................... 84

i) Rabochaia Gazeta ...................................................................................................... 86

ii) The Declarations of the Editorial Board of Iskra ..................................................... 94

iii)Lenin’s ‘reinsertion’ of the Plekhanovites back into the RSDLP ........................... 104

iv) Some Conclusions .................................................................................................. 118

B: The Struggle Between Democratic Centralism and Federalism ...............................120

Chapter Four: November 1901-February 1903: Party Democracy......................... 121

i) Two Contrasting Methods of Organising a Congress ............................................. 126

ii)Revolutionary Marxism and Reformism in the Context of RSDLP Democracy ...... 139

iii) The Reconstitution of the Organising Committee and its Work ............................ 145iv)The Jewish Bund ..................................................................................................... 156

iv) Some conclusions ......................................................160

Chapter Five: December 1902-August 1903: Struggle ............................................ 169

i) The Resistance Campaign of the Bund and the Economists .................................... 173

ii) Elements within the Iskra Faction Break with Lenins Organisational Plan ......... 182

iii) How the Revolutionary Marxists Split at the Second Congress ............................ 193

iv) How Martov changed his stance ........................................................................... 201

v) Some Conclusions ................................................................................................... 210

Chapter Six: Summary and General Conclusions ................................................... 214

Bibliography ................................................................................................................. 229

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