In January 1912 Lenin managed to convene a conference of his supporters in Prague that has gone down in history as the Prague conference of the RSDRP.
In fact, it consisted of twelve Leninists and two Mensheviks. They promptly elected a new RSDRP central committee composed of one Menshevik, Lenin, and four Leninists: Ordzhonikidze, Zinoviev, S. S. Spandarian, and F. I. Goloshchekin. The other member was a loyal Leninist and an agent of the Okhrana, R. V. Malinovsky.
Within a year of the conference Lenin was arbitrarily to “coopt” six more supporters, including Stalin. I merely note this to highlight the hard limits to any pro determinist theories of political economy.
Addendum - Lenin’s closest companion was the Okhrana agent Roman Malinovsky, with whom he traveled through Europe in January 1914. By this time Malinovsky was on a retainer of one hundred rubles a month from the police, to whom he reported on a regular basis. In May 1914 Malinovsky was revealed to be a police spy. He promptly resigned from the RSDRP Duma delegation and left for Poland to visit Lenin. Aside from Krupskaya and Malinovsky, Lenin was now quite alone.
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