Bolshevik Centre

It operated illegally after the RSDLP dissolved it through a Central Committee joint plenum decision made in February 1910.

The Bolshevik Centre was headed by a "Finance Group" consisting of Vladimir Lenin, Leonid Krasin and Alexander Bogdanov.

Other members included Viktor Taratuta, Lev Kamenev, Virgil Shantser, Grigory Zinoviev, and V.A.

[1] The group was involved in the attempt to unify the Party funds in a wider move to consolidate the Bolsheviks.

[2] An account stated that Lenin dominated this group through his connivance with Taratuta, Manev, and Zinoviev.