Sprawozdanie z Vl zjazdu Socialdemokracji Krolestwa.
[Luxemburg, Rosa]. Sprawozdanie z VI zjazdu Socialdemokracji Królestwa Polskiego i Litwy. Krakow, Aleksandr Ripper for Augustyn Wojtaszek, 1910.
8vo.; printed wrapper, fragile; lightly spotted, head of spine defective.
Rare first edition of the report of the 6th Congress of the S.D.K.P.i.L, with many anonymous contributions and a signed final address by Luxemburg. Żanna Kormanowa, Materiały do bibliografii druków socjalistycznych, p. 200; the only other copies we were able to locate are in the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam, and in the Polish National Library.
The preliminaries contain the party manifesto, the organisational statutes, articles to clarify the ideological differences between Luxemburg’s party and the more mainstream and nationalist PPS. The main text begins with reports of party meetings between July 1906 and October 1908. The report of the 6th Congress and the protocol of the ensuing discussions begins on p. 77.
During this Congress, which took place in Prague in 1908, impending splits and fault lines between different factions within the Polish Social Democracy became manifest. Another contributing factor to this situation was ‘the lack of strong ties between the leadership in Berlin that issued the orders and the rank and file in Warsaw that was expected to carry them out’ (Elżbieta Ettinger, Rosa Luxemburg, a Life., 175).
The illegal publication was printed on thin paper, in the relatively tolerant Austrian-occupied area of Poland, in order to be smuggled across the border into Russian and Prussian Poland. This report is by far the longest and most detailed report of all socialist party congress and meeting reports listed by Kormanowa.
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