Title: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF RUSSKAYA VOLYA

Author:LENIN VLADIMIR
Subject:SOCIALISM & RELATED SYSTEMS
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Vladimir Lenin
In the footsteps of Russkaya Volya



Written: April 13, 1917
First Published: Pravda No. 31, April 13, 1917
Online Version: marxists.org 1999




The methods of Russkaya Volya, a paper from which even the Cadets turn away in
disgust, find an increasing number of imitators. Look at Mr. Plekhanov's
Yedinstvo. Intent on "exposing" Pravda, Mr. Plekhanov takes Lenin's first
thesis, quotes the words saying that the war on Russia's part remains a
predatory imperialist war, and then triumphantly asks:
"And how about Germany? Lenin says nothing about that."
This, literally, is what he writes. The reader can scarcely believe the evidence
of his own eyes. Can it be that Mr. Plekhanov has sunk to the level of Novoye
Vremya and Russkaya Volya? Believe it or not, but the fact stares you in the
face.
Mr. Plekhanov's shamelessness knows no bounds. He is perfectly familiar with the
Bolshevik literature published abroad. He knows perfectly well that all
Bolsheviks, times without number, in their speeches, articles, and resolutions,
have always declared that the war on the party of Germany was just as predatory
and imperialist as it was on the part of the other belligerent "Great" Powers.
The German capitalists, and their chieftain, the crowned brigand Wilhelm, are
the same imperialist predators as the capitalists of other countries are.
We repeat: no intelligent person who knows anything at all about the Bolsheviks
can help knowing that this is our point of view. Mr. Plekhanov, too, knows this
perfectly well. He knows that Zinoviev's and Lenin's pamphlet, Socialism and
War, was published in Switzerland also in the German language, and smuggled into
Germany. And that pamphlet states as blunt as blunt can be that Germany is
carrying on a predatory war for the purpose of "...
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