ABSTRACT
There Lenin had contacted I. L. Eisenstadt-Yudin, a representative of the Vilno Social Democratic organization. On his return trip, Lenin spent seven weeks, through August and most of September, in Berlin. On August 3, 1895, a day after his arrival, Lenin attended a socialist meeting in Berlin. He was accompanied by Wilhelm Buchholz, the Russian correspondent of Vorwarts, the foremost German Social Democratic paper. Buchholz, a Prussian citizen, had known Lenin in Samara from 1889 to 1891, the period during which he had lived under police surveillance. German Communist historians, eager to establish some sort of apostolic succession, intimate that Lenin acted as a Vorwarts correspondent. Lenin used his time in Berlin visiting the library and reading additional revolutionary literature. The first meeting of Lenin and Martov which was somewhat of a historic occasion, took place on Martov's initiative. However, the organization was given its name only after Lenin was already in prison.
