| January 2-23 (January 15-February 5) | Lenin takes part in the work of the plenum of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. in Paris; he moves a draft resolution “The State of Affairs in the Party” condemning liquidationism and otzovism. Lenin is elected by the plenum on to the editorial board of the Central Organ, Sotsial-Demokrat, and as a representative of the R.S.D.L.P. in the International Socialist Bureau |
| End of January (beginning of February) | Lenin speaks at a meeting of the editorial board of the Central Organ against the publication in Sotsial-Demokrat of Y. O. Martov’s liquidationist article “On the Right Path”. |
| February 13 (26) | Lenin’s article “Towards Unity” containing an appraisal of the decisions of the January plenary session of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. is published in No. 11 of Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| March 6 (19) | The first part of Lenin’s work “Notes of a Publicist, I. The ‘Platform’ of the Adherents and Defenders of Otzovism”, is published in No. 1 of Diskussionny Listok. |
| March 7 (20) | At a meeting in Paris of the Second (Bolshevik) Group for Assistance to the R.S.D.L.P., during a discussion of a report on the plenary session of the Central Committee, Lenin speaks in favour of the uniting with the pro-Party Mensheviks (Plekhanovites). |
| March 14 (27) | Lenin writes a letter to N. Y. Vilonov in Davos (Switzerland) on union of the Bolsheviks with the pro-Party Mensheviks (Plekhanovites) for combating the liquidators. |
| March 16 (29) | In a letter to G. V. Plekhanov Lenin proposes that he should meet him for talks on the state of affairs in the Party. |
| March 23 (April 5) | Lenin sends a statement to the C.C. Bureau Abroad of the R.S.D.L.P. on the conflicts in the editorial board of the Central Organ. Lenin’s articles “Golos (Voice) of the Liquidators Against the Party” (Reply to Golos Sotsial-Demokrata) and “What to Fight For?” are published in No. 12 of Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| Earlier than March 27 (April 9) | At a closed meeting of the Second (Bolshevik) Group for Assistance to the R.S.D.L.P. in Paris, Lenin moves a resolution for the expulsion from the Party of three Mensheviks who had refused to join the Russian collegium of the C.C. Lenin’s resolution is accepted. |
| March 28 (April 10) | Lenin signs a letter to the Chief Board of the Polish Social-Democratic Party; this letter condemns the wavering displayed by representatives of that party in the struggle against the liquidators in the C.C. Bureau Abroad. |
| March 29 (April 11) | Lenin writes a letter to A. M. Gorky on Party unity with an appraisal of the work of the January plenum of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. |
| Earlier than April 26 (May 9) | Lenin writes a statement to the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. on the situation in the editorial board of the Central Organ in connection with the behaviour of the liquidationist section of the board and insists that the liquidators should be replaced by Menshevik members of the Party. |
| April 26 (May 9) | Lenin’s articles “The Campaign Against Finland”, “They Are Nervous About the Army”, “Party Unity Abroad”, and “One of the Obstacles to Party Unity” are published in No. 13 of Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| May 25 (June 7) | The second part of Lenin’s work “Notes of a Publicist, II. The ‘Unity Crisis’ in our Party” is published in No. 2 of Diskussionny Listok. |
| June 15 (28) | Lenin leaves Paris for Capri to visit Maxim Gorky. |
| June 18-30 (July 1-13) | Lenin stays with M. Gorky on Capri. |
| July 1 (14) | Lenin leaves Capri. |
| July 9 or 10-August 10 (July 22 or 23-August 23) | Lenin is on holiday with N. K. Krupskaya and her mother in the little seaside town of Pornic (France) on the Brittany coast. |
| July | Lenin’s article “The Jubilee Number of Zihna” is published in No. 100 of the newspaper Zihna (Struggle), the organ of the Social-Democrats of Latvia. |
| Before August 13 (26) | Lenin meets G. V. Plekhanov in Paris and converses with him. |
| August 13 (26) | Lenin arrives in Copenhagen for the Eighth Congress of the Second International and takes part in a meeting of the International Socialist Bureau. |
| August 15-21 (August 28-September 3) | Lenin takes part in the work of the Copenhagen Congress of the Second International. |
| Between August 15 and 21 (August 28 and September 3) |
Lenin convenes a meeting of the Lefts in the Second International in order to organise and unite the revolutionary elements in the international working-class movement. Lenin has a meeting with G. V. Plekhanov, N. G. Poletayev and I. P. Pokrovsky on the question of the foundation of Rabochaya Gazeta and Zvezda. |
| August 16 (29) | Lenin takes part in a meeting of representatives of national sections of the Copenhagen Congress, the agenda of which contains the items: 1) Checking of credentials, 2) Appointment of commissions. |
| August 16-19 (August 29-September 1) | Lenin takes part in the work of the co-operative commission of the Congress, he drafts a resolution on co-operative societies and puts forward amendments to the resolution of the co-operative commission of the Congress. |
| August 20 (September 2) |
Lenin informs the International Socialist Bureau that, by a decision of the January plenum of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P., 1910, G. V. Plekhanov as well as V. I. Lenin represents the R.S.D.L.P. in the International Socialist Bureau. Lenin jointly with G. V. Plekhanov and A. Varsky sends a letter to the Executive Committee of the German Social-Democratic Party protesting against the publication in Vorwärts of a slanderous article by Trotsky. |
| August 30 (September 12) | Lenin’s article “The Vperyod Faction” is published in No. 15-16 of Sotsial-Demokrat. Lenin writes the article “The Otzovist-Ultimatumist Strikebreakers” (this article has not been found). |
| August 30-September 12 (September 12-26) | Lenin is in Stockholm where he had come to meet his mother, M. A. Ulyanova, and his sister, M. I. Ulyanova; he delivers lectures at meetings of Social-Democratic groups “The International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen” and “The State of Affairs in the Party”. |
| September 2 (15) | Lenin writes out a subscription card for the loan of books on Danish agriculture from a library in Copenhagen. |
| September 13 or 14 (26 or 27) | Lenin in Copenhagen reads a paper on the International Socialist Congress. |
| September 16 (28) | Lenin returns to Paris. |
| September 21 (October 4) | In a letter to N. A. Semashko, the representative of the Bolsheviks in the C.C. Bureau Abroad of the R.S.D.L.P., Lenin demands the urgent summoning of a meeting of the Bolsheviks to decide the question of the publication of Rabochaya Gazeta. |
| September 24 (October 7) | Lenin writes a letter to Julian Marchlewski on the latter’s proposed article in Neue Zeit against Y. O. Martov and gives a number of directives for the article. |
| September 25 (October 8) |
Lenin’s articles “The Question of Co-operative Societies at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen” and “How Certain Social-Democrats Inform the International About the State of Affairs in the R.S.D.L.P.” are published in No. 17 of Sotsial-Demokrat. Lenin works on the article “The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia”, which he proposes to publish in Neue Zeit. The article was published in No. 3 of Diskussionny Listok, April 29 (May 12), 1911. Lenin begins working on strike statistics in Russia 1905-08. |
| November | Lenin conducts negotiations with V. V. Vorovsky and I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov on organising the publication in Moscow of the legal Bolshevik magazine Mysl. |
| End of September-November | Lenin studies strike statistics in Russia for the period 1905-08. He works on the articles “The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia” (published in Diskussionny Listok No. 3, 1911) and “Strike Statistics in Russia” (published in the first and second issues of the journal Mysl in December 1910-January 1911). |
| Prior to October 15 (28) | Lenin speaks at a meeting of Bolsheviks in Paris on the question of founding, together with the Plekhanovites, Rabochaya Gazeta. |
| Prior to October 30 (November 12) | Lenin writes the article “Announcement on the Publication of Rabochaya Gazeta”. |
| October 30 (November 12) | Lenin’s article “The Lessons of the Revolution” is published as a leading article in No. 1 of Rabochaya Gazeta. |
| November 1 (14) | Lenin sends No. 1 of Rabochaya Gazeta to A. M. Gorky in Capri and informs him of the preparations for publishing jointly with Plekhanov the legal magazine Mysl. |
| November 16 (29) | Lenin’s articles “Two Worlds”, “The Demonstration on the Death of Muromtsev”, “Is This the Turn of the Tide?” and “L. N. Tolstoy” are published in No. 18 of Sotsial-Demokrat. |
| November 20 (December 3) | Lenin in a letter “To the Comrades Studying at the School in Bologna” refuses to read lectures in Bologna and invites the students to come to courses in Paris. |
| November 22 (December 5) |
In a letter to the C.C. R.S.D.L.P. Bureau Abroad Lenin suggests the immediate remittance of 1,000 rubles for the publication of the newspaper Zvezda. Lenin and other Bolsheviks submit a statement to the C.C. Bureau Abroad demanding the immediate convocation of a plenary meeting of the Central Committee. |
| Later than November 22 (December 5) | On behalf of Rabochaya Gazeta Lenin writes “An Open Letter to All Pro-Party Social-Democrats” describing the inner-Party situation. |
| November 28 (December 11) | Lenin’s article “L. N. Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement” is published in No. 7 of the newspaper Nash Put. |
| December 16 (29) | Lenin’s article “Differences in the European Labour Movement” is published in No. 1 of the newspaper Zvezda. |
| December 18 (31) | Lenin’s articles “Tolstoy and the Proletarian Struggle”, “The Beginning of Demonstrations”, “What Is Happening in the Countryside?” and “Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin (An Obituary)” are published in No. 2 of Rabochaya Gazeta. |
| December |
No. 1 of the magazine Mysl is issued in Moscow containing Lenin’s articles “Heroes of ‘Reservation’” and “Strike Statistics in Russia” (Chapter 1). Lenin writes the article “The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture”. |
| Prior to December 15 (28) | While in Paris, Lenin writes a letter to the Russian Collegium of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P., on the state of affairs in the Party. |
| December 23 (January 5, 1911) | Lenin’s article “Certain Features of the Historical Development of Marxism” is published in Zvezda No. 2. |
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