By Leonas Sabaliunas
But Sabaliunas additionally considers such companions and opponents because the Jewish Bund, the Polish Socialist occasion, the Social Democracy of the dominion of Poland and Lithuania, and the Russian Social Democratic hard work social gathering. He makes a speciality of the looks of socialist events on the neighborhood point, the politics of assertive habit through the Russian Revolution of 1905–1906, the character of interparty kin, and efforts to advertise social gathering harmony. specifically, he investigates the projected dating among Russia and its topic nationalities—a cardinal problem at the present time because the Baltic peoples try and distance themselves from their Russian neighbors.
Sabaliunas clarifies present vast Lithuanian competition to Moscow and to its model of socialism. He stresses that during Lithuania the socialist flow from the start not just sought recommendations to social and financial difficulties but additionally addressed problems with ethnic and nationwide curiosity, in particular the query of nationwide sovereignty.
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55 Kipras Bielinis (1883-1965), the man of forty cryptonvms, was responsible for the first anti-Russian demonstration in Lithuania during the revolution of 1905. The son of a man famous in Lithuanian history for smuggling illegal books into the country, Bie nnis was said to have organized thirty political meetings and demon strations in 1905. Mykolas Birziska (1882-1962), a future scholar de voted to the literary and cultural aspects of Lithuanian history, achieved considerable prominence in the party, particularly during his service on its central committee in 19 0 7 -19 12 .
Perhaps this was the right course, because the national question was essentially one of Lithuania's future existence. At party conferences and con gresses, or in party publications, the matter of the country's future existence was subsumed into such operational concepts as indepen dence, federalism, autonomy, and separatism. The separatism of the lsdp , as noted above, initially meant the abandonment of the Russian fold. Parenthetically, it also meant the establishment of a distinctly Lithuanian identity with respect to the Poles.
In 1906 this hybrid party became 2 part of the rsdlp . 32 It reviewed the tactics of the labor movement, heard a report on the group's activities, and discussed its relations with other revolutionary groups. The conferees then agreed upon a program congruent with the views of Domasevicius and Moravskis, designating the two men, along with Trusiewicz, as the group's corps of officers. This triumvirate of leaders was expected to assume the direction of all of the Marxist groups in the greater Vilnius area save the Jewish one.