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Ik lees toevallig net in mijn cursus Geschiedenis van Rusland en de Sovjet-Unie:

The Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (RSDRP) had attempted to hold a national organizing conference in 1898, but it was broken up by the police. In 1900, V.I. Lenin emigrated to Switzerland where he joined with L. Martov and G. Plekhanov to publish a journal, Iskra, which they hoped would serve as organizational center for Russian Social-Democrats. Iskra organized the Second Congress of the RSDRP, held in Brussels and London in 1903, which adopted both a minimum program (a parliament, democratic elections, an eight-hour workday, and the transfer of all the land to the peasantry) and a maximum program (socialist revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat). Two factions emerged at the congress: Mensheviks led by Martov and the more militant and disciplined Bolsheviks led by Lenin.