Joseph Stalin

Briefly About Disagreements in the Party Joseph Stalin

J. V. Stalin's pamphlet Briefly About the Disagreements in the Party was written at the end of April 1905 in reply to articles by N. Jordania: "Majority or Minority?" in the Social-Democrat, "What Is a Party?" in Mogzauri, and others. News of the appearance of this pamphlet soon reached the Bolshevik center abroad. On July 18, 1905, N. K. Krupskaya wrote to the Caucasian Union Committee of the R. S. D. L. P. requesting that copies of the pamphlet be sent to the center. The pamphlet was widely circulated among the Bolshevik organizations in Transcaucasia. From it the advanced workers learned of the disagreements within the Party and of the stand taken by the Bolsheviks headed by V. I. Lenin. The pamphlet was printed at the underground printing press of the Caucasian Union of the R. S. D. L. P. in Avlabar in May 1905, in the Georgian language, and in June it was printed in the Russian and Armenian languages, each in 1,500-2,000 copies.