A “Museum of Bad Taste”?: The Jewish Labour Bund and the Bolshevik Position Regarding the National Question, 1903-14
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article discusses the debates on the national question between the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDRP), led by Vladimir Lenin, and the Jewish Labour Bund, then an integral part of the RSDRP, from 1903 to the First World War. The escalating conflict and competition between the Bolsheviks and the Bund shaped both groups’ position regarding national minorities, at a time when the former were striving to gain control of the Russian Marxist revolutionary movement. I examine Lenin’s and Joseph Stalin’s fierce criticism of the program of national-cultural autonomy advanced by the Bund and the Austro-Marxist theorists Karl Renner and Otto Bauer and show how Lenin and the Bolsheviks adopted the formula of “right of nations to self-determination” partly as a result of tactical considerations during their decade-long debate with the Bund. The Bolshevik leaders, Lenin and Stalin, formulated their ideas on nationalities in opposition to the Bund; the Bund thus played a role, even if a negative one, in the long-term development of Bolshevik ideas and policy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".