The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
Formerly a Church
Now Workers Club

THIS used to be den for ped
ding religious opium. 1t aOds hand
ed orer to the WorkerS by the So.
Tiet government, aVho hare trans.
! formed it into lOorkerS' club.
from the conception of the Menshe-
viks.
Several years later, the Revolu-
ton of 1905 broke out in Russia. On
January %, 1905, famous in history
as "Bloody Sunday" masses of
workers were shot down in front of
the Tsar's padace, while attempting
to present a petition for reforms,
In October Of the same year, the
first Soviet of Workers Deputies
was estal lished in st. Petersburg.
The next month at the beginning of
! November, 1905, Lenin returned to
Russia and took active part in pre-
pairing large strikes which broke
out in Moscow and other places. In
st. Petersburg, the Soviet Delegates
were arrested. On December 16,
1905, the first legal Bolshevik daily
paper, NOvaya Xhizn, appeared in
g.. Petersburg under Lenin's editor
ship Then the period of reaction set
in.
In 1907, the NASH Zarya, a scien-
tific journal, edited by Lenin, APP
peared. During this time, Lenin
went to FINLAND, and in December,
1907, to Paris. After publishing a
study on the agrarian question, Len
in worked on his Materialism and
Emprio- Criticism, which was pub
lished in 1908.
In 1908, Lenin became member
of the Bureau of the Second Inter-
national in Brussels. And up until
1914, he worked hard preparing and
participating in conferences, organ
izing and writing for Social-Demo-
cratic newspapers and building the
Bolshevik Party.
In 1914, Lenin moved to Switzer-
land, living first in Berne and later
in Zurich. Meanwhile the Imperial
list war broke out, the Second In
ternational collapsed and the work
ing class was driven to slaughter
one another by their former leaders.
Lenin Immediately took up the strug
gle against social-patriotism, against
the Socialist betrayers of the work
ing class and against the Imperialist
war. From September 5-S, 1915,
Lenin took part in the Zimmerwald
Conference, and helped to crystalline
the Zimmerwald old Left Wing In
1917, the Russian Revolution broke
out, and on April 16, Lenin arrived
in st. Petersburg, having departed
from Switzerland soon after the
news of the Revolution reached him.
In Russia, Lenin took up the strug-
gle against the Kerensky Govern
ment, which attempted to carry on
the war in the interest of Russian
and Allied capitalism. July 3, 1917,
the Provisional Government opened
its offensive against the Bolsheviks,
and Lenin was compelled to flee to
FINLAND. Here, he worked on his
famous little study, The State and
Revolution.
November 7, the st. Petersburg
Soviet and the Revolutionary Mill
tary Committee seized political pow
er in ST. Petersburg, and on Novem-
Der IL, the All-Russian Congress of
Soviets placed Lenin at the head of
the Soviet Government.
During the years of "war COM
munism," civil war and imperialist
intervention, Lenin performed a
titanic labor. In 1919, the Commun-
list international was organized. In
1922, Lenin was seriously i'll. And
in December of that year he deliv-
cred his last speech at the Metal
Workers Conference. In March,
1928, he wrote his last articles, and
on January 81, 1924, Lenin, the great
leader of the oppressed and exploited
all over the world, the greatest
Marxist since Marx and Engels and
the founder of the Communist In
ternational, died near Moscow.
Lenin's mausoleum is in the Red
Square near the Kremlin in Moscow.