Written: Written between December 23, 1904 and January 4, 1905
Published:
First published in 1930.
Sent from Geneva to Russia.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1974,
Moscow,
Volume 34,
page 285.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup:
D. Moros
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(2005).
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• README
Dear Comrade,
I was very glad to learn that it is now possible to establish more regular contact with you. It would be good if you were to take advantage of this to write me a few lines about how you feel and what the immediate prospects are. Up till now all news of you has come through intermediaries, which always makes mutual understanding rather difficult.
Throughout the year our Party affairs have been in a scandalous state, as you have probably heard. The Minority has wrecked the Second Congress, created the new Iskra (Have you seen it? What do you think of it?) and now, when the vast majority of the committees that have expressed themselves at all have vigorously rebelled against this new Iskra, the Minority has wrecked the Third Congress as well. It has become all too obvious to the Minority that the Party will not tolerate their organ of tittle-tattle and squabbling in the struggle, of reversion to Rabocheye Dyelo-ism in matters of principle, to the famous organisation-as-process theory.
The situation now has been made clear. The Majority committees have united (four Caucasian and the Odessa, Ekaterinoslav, Nikolayev, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Tver, Northern and Nizhni-Novgorod committees). I have begun here (with new literary forces) to publish the news paper Vperyod (an announcement has been issued, No. 1 will appear at the beginning of January, new style). Let us know what you think of it and whether we can count on your support, which would be extremely important for us.
[1] Yeramasov, A. I. (died 1927)—a Social-Democrat, Iskrist. From the time of Iskra up to the October Socialist Revolution gave financial assistance to the Bolshevik Party.
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