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Letter to Alexander Shliapnikov, November 25, 1914
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, page 310.
November 25
Dear Friend,
Last night we read of the arrest of 11 people (including 5 members of the R.S.D.L. Duma group[1]) near Petrograd, and we sent a telegram to Branting today to help you ascertain (through the Finns le cas échéant[2] whether the 5 members of the R.S.D.L. Duma group have been arrested.
It will be a bad blow if it is true!
But all the more impermissible in that case will be your departure for Denmark. In any case, I protest energetically against such a departure. This is the time for you to be in Stockholm personally, in order to establish better, more frequent and more extensive contacts. This is a difficult job, it requires an experienced person, with a knowledge of at least one foreign language. It cannot be left just to âanyoneâ to look after.
If you are pressed (by the police) in Stockholm, you should hide in some village near Stockholm (this is easily done, they have telephones everywhere). I think Kollontai, too, could soon easily come to Stockholm or to some suburban place, incognito.
We shall soon be issuing No. 34 of the CO, and then No. 35 as well.
Reply as quickly as possible. We have been getting all your letters. We have also received the document[3] of the liquidators (their reply to Vandervelde). Thanks.
All good wishes, and we are awaiting your news.
Yours,
Lenin
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, pages 437b-438a.
25/XI.
Dear Friend,
Yesterday evening we read about the arrest of 11 people (including 5 members of the R.S.D.L. Duma group)[4] near St. Petersburg and today we sent a telegram to Branting for you to find out (le cas échéant through the Finns) whether the 5 members of the Duma group have been arrested or not.
Itâs a bad job if they have!
All the more inadmissible is your departure for Denmark. Generally, I strongly protest against such a removal. Now of all times you have to be in Stockholm in order to organise contacts more properly, frequently and widely. This is a difficult job that requires an experienced man, knowing at least one foreign language. It simply cannot be shuffled off onto âsomebodyâ.
If you are molested (by the police) in Stockholm, you should hide yourself in a village outside Stockholm (this is easy, they have telephones everywhere). I think Kollontai, too, could easily come to Stockholm soon incognito or to some small place outside town.
We shall soon be putting out No. 34 of the CO, then No. 35.
Please answer quickly. We receive all your letters. The liquidatorsâ document (their reply to Vandervelde)[5] has also been received. Thanks.
All the very best. Awaiting your news,
Yours, Lenin
- â The arrest of Bolsheviks attending a conference at Ozerki, near Petrograd, among them members of the R.S.D.L. group in the Fourth Duma.
The conference was held from November 2 to 4 (15 to 17), 1914, and was attended by Bolsheviks from Petrograd, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kharkov and Riga.
On November 4 (17), when the conference had just ended, the police, on information of a provocateur, raided the premises. During the search, copies of Leninâs theses on the war and Sotsial-Demokrat No. 33, which carried the CC, RSDLP manifesto, The War and Russian Social-Democracy, were confiscated from Duma Bolshevik deputies Petrovsky, Badayev and others. All the participants in the conference were arrested, except for the deputies, because of their parliamentary immunity. But they too were arrested two days later, put on trial and exiled for life to Eastern Siberia. Lenin analysed the results of the trial in his article âWhat Has Been Revealed by the Trial of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Duma Groupâ, which was published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 40 on March 29, 1915 (see present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 171â77). - â If there is a chance.âEd.
- â The reply of the Petrograd liquidators (P. P. Maslov, A. N. Potresov, N. Cherevanin [F. A. Lipkin] and others) to E. Vanderveldeâs telegram urging the Russian Social-Democrats not to campaign against the war. The liquidators justified the Belgian, French and British socialists who had entered their bourgeois governments, and supported the social-chauvinists, and declared that they, for their part, did not oppose the war. Their reply was published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 34, with a note from the Editorial Board.
- â This refers to the arrest of the Bolsheviks who attended the conference at Ozerki, near Petrograd, among whom were members of the RSDLP group in the Fourth Duma.
The conference was held from November 2 to 4 (15â17), 1914, and was attended, apart from the Bolshevik Duma deputies, by delegates from the Bolshevik organisations of Petrograd, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Kharkov and Riga.
All the delegates were arrested except the Bolshevik deputies, who enjoyed parliamentary immunity. But they too were arrested a couple of days later, tried and exiled for life to Eastern Siberia (see Leninâs article âWhat Has Been Revealed by the Trial of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Duma Groupâ, present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 171â77). - â The answer given by the St. Petersburg liquidators (P. P. Maslov, A. N. Potresov, N. Cherevanin [F. A. Lipkin] and others) to Vanderveldeâs telegram appealing to the Russian Social-Democrats not to oppose the war. In their reply the liquidators justified the Belgian, French and British socialists in joining the bourgeois governments, fully approved the stand adopted by the social-chauvinists and declared that in their activities in Russia they were not opposing the war. The liquidatorsâ reply was published in No. 34 of Sotsial-Demokrat with a note from the editors.