STALIN BOLSHEVISM - THE 1ST DECADE

This article discusses Stalin's Bolshevism during his Tiflis and Baku periods in the first decade of the century. It focuses on his position in the inner-faction debate between Lenin and Bogdanov. It holds that Dzhugashvili's tactical and organizational views in the years from 19 07 to 1909 moved from sympathetic to Bogdanov to a position near Lenin , though remaining somewhat to the left of the latter. Dzhugashvili ne ver belonged to the leftist tendency. He was a typical representative of the ''Russian'' praktiki, whose main concern was to further concili ation in the Bolshevik faction.