Report on the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

A Letter to the St. Petersburg Workers[1]

Written early in May 1906 · First published in pamphlet form in June 1906 by Vperyod Publishers, Moscow. Published according to the pamphlet text. · pages 317–382 · Translated by Andrew Rothstein.

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[1] The pamphlet Report on the Unity Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., (A Letter to the St. Petersburg Workers) became an object of persecution. The police searched the Dyelo printing-works in St. Petersburg, where the pamphlet was being set, and delivered the latter to the St. Petersburg Press Committee. The Committee banned the pamphlet. But the Party succeeded in sending the text to Moscow, where its printing was completed.

In the Vperyod edition, the pamphlet had an Appendix including the draft resolutions submitted to the Congress by the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, resolutions adopted by the Congress, and other matter. Lenin refers to them more than once in his pamphlet. At the end of the pamphlet there is a brief introduction to the Appendix (see p. 382 of this volume).