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10.45- The Disunity Congresses

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The Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party

This congress was meant to really reunify and re solidify all the social democratic parties in the russian empire. And everybody was there. Plahanof martof axlerod for the mensheviks, while the bolsheviks were led by lenin. Many of them donned disguises and snuck in through the back door to avoid being photographed and identified by the r Russian authorities. This congress was originally meant to meet in copenhagen, but as the delegates started showing up, the russians put heavy pressure on the danes to forbid their gathering,. So the delegates had to scramble at the last minute and move up to the relatively free fty of london.

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