The Conference of the Twenty Two was an important organizational meeting in the foundation of the
Bolshevik faction of the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP; in , ''Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)''), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist pol ...
. Despite its name the conference was only attended by 19 people, the remaining three adding their names to the text subsequently.
The conference adopted Vladimir Lenin's text ''To the Party''.
Attendees
The conference was held near
Geneva between 30 July and 1 August 1904. It was attended by:
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Vladimir Lenin
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Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; – 7 April 1928), born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and B ...
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Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich
Vladimir Dmitriyevich Bonch-Bruyevich (russian: Владимир Дмитриевич Бонч-Бруевич; sometimes spelled Bonch-Bruevich; in Polish Boncz-Brujewicz; – 14 July 1955) was a Soviet politician, revolutionary, historian ...
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Sergey Ivanovich Gusev
Sergei Ivanovich Gusev (AKA "Gussev") (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Гу́сев) (real name - Yakov Davidovich Drabkin: Russian — Я́ков Дави́дович Дра́бкин) (1 January 1874 – 10 June 1933) was a Russian re ...
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Pyotr Krasikov
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See also
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Letter of the Twenty Two
The ''Letter of the Twenty Two'' was a letter written by twenty two working class members of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) expressing their concerns about the rift which they perceived between workers and party leaders. It was addressed ...
'', 1922
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