A couple of these images are well-known but here are all the photos from that ‘session’ taken from the official Soviet photo book that documented and published all images of Lenin that were available (and a note on others that were present but not published due to quality issues or other reasons).
The full history of Vpered group is yet to be written. A ‘traditional’ (Leninist) account is based on Lenin’s interpretation of the split between his supporters and ‘left Bolsheviks’ in the summer of 1909. One can see this interpretation in the very phraseology of Bolsheviks versus Vperedists. Soviet historiography tended to see Lenin’s struggle against […]
I’d like to recommend this essay – The Stofflichkeit of the Universe: Alexander Bogdanov and the Soviet Avant-Garde – from e-flux journal written by Maria Chehonadskih. It is an original discussion not only of the Soviet avant-grade but, most interestingly, also of Bogdanov’s empiriomonist ideas – these are made relevant to contemporary conversations and presented in […]
I have recently re-read this particular essay by Lars Lih and revisited the debate between Lars Lih and John Marot (among a few other things) – so I wanted to post a link to this text. Enjoy! In the essay presented below, I describe a consensus view shared among a variety of revolutionary Social Democrats […]
Ленинский Сборник [Lenin Miscellany] – Volume 25 – contains Lenin’s ‘comments’ on two articles from 1909 from The Banner of Labor [Знамя труда], a Paris-based Socialist-Revolutionary journal: one is a text by Shishko, a prominent SR intellectual, called ‘The Crisis of Bolshevism’; another – a text by someone under a pseudonym ‘Nikolai Garri’ [Николай Гарри] […]
A leaflet “Ко всем товарищам!“ [To all comrades!] that appeared in Paris in 1909 (the leaflet did not contain a publication date but it was likely published before the so-called Vpered Platform – The Current Situation and Tasks of the Party: A Platform Developed by a Group of Bolsheviks – published in December of 1909, […]
Alexander Bogdanov Library 