Inter-District Organisation of United Social-Democrats
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Inter-District Organisation of United Social-Democrats was formed in St. Petersburg in November 1913 with the declared object of working for the unity of the RSDLP; i.e. uniting the Bolshevik and Menshevik parties.
During the First World War the members of the Inter-District Organisation occupied a Centrist position; considering the war to be an imperialist war and were against social-chauvinism, but would not completely break with the Mensheviks.
In 1917, the I.D.O., among whose members were Trotsky, Lunacharsky, Joffe, Manuilsky, Volodarsky, Uritsky and Yurenev, declared itself on the side of the Bolshevik party. At the elections to the Petrograd district councils in May-June 1917, the I.D.O. and Bolsheviks formed a bloc. Later, at the Sixth Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.), the I.D.O. (membership about 4,000), became members of the Bolshevik Party.
The I.D.O. published a journal of its own, Yperyod. One number was put out illegally in 1915, and publication was resumed in 1917, when it came out legally from June to August as the organ of the St. Petersburg Inter-District Committee of the United Social-Democrats (Internationalists). Eight issues were put out. After the Sixth Congress of the Party the editorial board was changed, and No. 9 of the journal appeared as the organ of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.(B.). Publication was discontinued in September 1917 by decision of the Central Committee.
