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- ↑ Biggart, John (1981). "Anti-Leninist Bolshevism: the Forward Group of the RSDRP". Revue Canadienne des Slavistes. 23 (2): 134–153.
- ↑ Vladimir Lenin, The Social-Democratic Election Campaign in St. Petersburg, Prostiye Rechi, No. 2.