ABSTRACT
The question of partisan actions has aroused great interest within the Party and among the workers. The indictments against partisan warfare, so customary among Russians, go together with secret, accidental and unorganized partisan actions which, indeed, do disorganize the party. One must accept assertions that partisan warfare disorganizes the movement with skepticism. Every new form of struggle which involves new dangers and new sacrifices inevitably will “disorganize” organizations unprepared for the new tactics. Partisan warfare should be enobled by the enlightening and organizing influence of socialism. Partisan struggle reached its greatest popularity in the Lettish districts. The Lettish example demonstrates that the usual method of analyzing partisan action without regard to the status of the uprising is completely wrong, unscientific and unhistorical. Partisan struggle as such does not produce demoralization, which results rather from disorganization, undisciplined armed actions and from lack of party leadership.
