Excerpt from The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist Duma With these words Pravda took farewell of the Third Duma, expressing thereby the general attitude of the workers and peasants. The Fourth Duma was to follow in the footsteps of the Third. The electoral law remained the same, and therefore the majority in the new Duma was bound to be as Black Hundred as before. There was no doubt that the activities of the Fourth Duma would also be directed against the workers and that its legislation would be of no use either-to the workers or the peasantry. In spite of these considerations the social-democratic Party decided to take an' active part in the elections as it had done in those for the Second and Third Dumas. The experience of the preceding years had shown the great importance of an election campaign from the standpoint of agitation, and the important role played by Social Democratic fractions in the Duma. Our fractions, while refusing to take part in the so called' 'positive' 'work of legislation, used the Duma rostrum for revolutionary agitation. The work of the Social Democratic fractions outside the Duma was still more important they were becoming the organising centres of Party work in Russia. Therefore our Party decided that active participation in the campaign was necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.