Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

[5] On April 12, 1917, Tiesa ('Truth'), the first Lithuanian-language Bolshevik publication, was launched as the organ of the Lithuanian District of the Petrograd Branch.

It decided to disband the Lithuanian District and instructed its members to join the Bolshevik Party work-place cells.

[2][3] To coordinate the activities of the Lithuanian Sections, a Provisional Central Bureau was established chaired by Vincas Kapsukas.

[10] During the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies held in November 1917, the Provisional Central Bureau was represented by Kapsukas, Norbertas Kavaliukas, Jonas Kovalskis, Viktoras Penkaitis, Eugenija Tautkaitė, and Elena Petniūnaitė-Vilūnienė.

[5] Representatives from the Smolensk branch of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party were invited, as they adhered to the Tiesa line.

[15] In April 1918, the theoretical publication Komunistas [lt] ('Communist'), edited by Angarietis, began publishing in Voronezh as an organ of the Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections.

The conference was attended by 16 delegates from Petrograd, Moscow, Smolensk, Vitebsk, Tula, Voronezh, and Nizhny Novgorod with voting rights (V. Kapsukas, K. Giedrys, G. Liutkevičius, E. Tautkaitė, P. Fedaravičius, J. Stašelis, F. Norvydas, A. Bernotas, K. Klorys and others).

There were 8 delegates without voting rights: Z. Angarietis, J. Lenkaitis, Stasys Matulaitis, P. Mickevičius and Jurgis Smolskis from the Central Bureau, S. Žebrauskas from the Tiesa editorial office, J. Tarvainis from Nizhny Novgorod, and V. Jasaitis from Riga.

[17] The Second Conference of the Lithuanian Sections approved a plan to send revolutionary cadres into Lithuania to build Bolshevik organizations there.

[2] In April 1918, the Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections sent its first secret emissary Aleksandra Drabavičiūtė (codename Ona) to Lithuania from Moscow.

[11] On August 14, 1918, a clandestine meeting was held in Vilna at which revolutionary social-democrats, under the influence of the Central Bureau of the Lithuanian Sections, established the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia.

[20] Rasikas was also put in charge of building the 5th Vilna Infantry Regiment of the Red Army in Moscow, travelling across Soviet Russia to enlist men born in the Lithuanian governorates.

The conference elected new leadership for the Lithuanian and Belorussian Agitation and Propaganda Section, including R. Rasikas (secretary), V. Kapsukas, Chodoš, Romančiuk and J.

[22] In the fall of 1920, the disagreements emerged in the Lithuanian Sections in Soviet Russia, with a faction opposed to Kapsukas and Angaretis coming to the forefront.

[22][7] Raudonoji vėliava frequently carried articles by Mickevičius-Paprūsis and Kurkulis-Vardūnas attacking the leadership of the Communist Party of Lithuania.

[22] The polemical texts in Raudonoji vėliava caught the attention of the Central Control Commission of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), which reprimanded the publication for anti-party activities.

[20] A Secretariat, with Kazys Giedrys as its secretary, was formed as replacement of the Central Bureau to lead the work of the local Lithuanian Sections of the party.

[15][20] The monthly magazine Komunaras [lt], edited by V. Kapsukas, became the organ of the Lithuanian party sections in December 1921.