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14. policy of turning the imperialist war into a revolutionary civil war, and calling for unity with the chauvinists. 8. David -- follower of Bernstein, the German revisionist of Marx. Social-chauvinist and member of the first bourge- ois republican government which suppressed the revolution in Germany in 1918. 9. Stockholm Conference - international socialist 'peace' conference proposed by the opportunist socialists in Germ- any and Russia in the interests of their own bourgeoisies who were not doing so well in the war, but rejected by the French opportunists at the behest of their bourgeoisie. The British Labour Party supported the conference, in the belief that their government would respond to the German feelers for peace, but they were not allowed to go leading to the resignation of one of their leaders, Arthur Hender- son, from the war cabinet. On the basis of the above anal- ysis the Bolsheviks opposed the conference. 10. MacDonald J. Ramsay - Labour Party leader; later first Labour prime minister and prime minister of the National Government. The passport was for the Stockholm Conference. 11. See V.I. Lenin, 'The Revolution of 1917', Works, Vol. XX, Book II, p.405. 12. Socialist-Revolutionary Party - Russian petty-bourge- ois party representing the rich peasants. Practised indi- vidual terrorism against Tsarism, supported the war and joined the foreign intervention against the Soviets. One of them shot Lenin, wounding him seriously. 13. Mensheviks -- ('minority'), opportunist Russian 'Marx- ists' who split with the Bolsheviks ('majority') on every decisive question such as Party organisation, revolutionary strategy and tactics, attitude to the poor peasantry and the liberal bourgeoisie, attitude to the war and the Prov- isional Government etc. After October 1917 joined the foreign intervention against the Soviets. 14. Novaya Zhizn (New Life) - paper of the International- ist Social-Democrats, a small group of intellectuals incl- uding Maxim Gorky, some of whom became Mensheviks and oth- ers (including Gorky) Bolsheviks. 15. Zimmerwald Conference - internationalist socialists' conference, Switzerland, Sept. 1915. Split between the Kautskyite majority and the revolutionary internationalists or 'Zimmerwald Left' headed by Lenin. The conference iss- ued a manifesto calling for opposition to imperialist war. 16. tra 17. Soc tis ice man Par unt sai the 18. ie; (Le er the ati Int liv ind dre 19. trac 20. cra Opp min. bri tion 21. Bri 22. figh Aust Sov Tran ant 23. mun ress acqu 24. stat