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Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, After July 23, 1916
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Flums to Hertenstein. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, pages 548b-549a
I am sending you MSS. with slips of notes concerning your article (it is shockingly lengthy. Im-pos-sible...) and with cuts in Varinâs (he gave me the right to cut ânon-war passagesâ and generalities. I think it could do with some more cuts).
It looks like itâs going to be something measureless. Itâs ghastly. I donât know what to do. Yet something has still to be written about opportunism (I have 1/2 of it ready), about defeatism and about Trotskyism (including the Duma group+P.S.D.).[1]
Figure out as quickly and accurately as possible how much we already have.
I returned to you the Italian cuttings, as far as I remember. If I didnât, I must have left them in Zurich, and wonât get them until I return.
Re Bukharin & Co., we should send round to the groups (+Radek??) a confidential letter by the Editorial Board of the CO concerning its refusal (for Bukharin & Co. are obviously âretailingâ already). Or should we wait a week or so? As for Radek, if he wants to have âourâ version, let him send you theirs.
If Ryabovsky is Stark,[2] then we should wait for Jamesâs reply. For there have been suspicions both in regard to Stark and Miron. (Myron, as Kamenev and Malinovsky said, all but confessed to an ugly police affair.)
Salut!
Lenin
P.S. You are right not to trust Bukharin.
Is the enclosed âtabâ what you want?[3] Return it.
- â The first part of the letter refers to the articles for Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata.
Opportunism was criticised by Lenin in his article âImperialism and the Split in Socialismâ; the Duma group and Trotskyism were criticised in two articles: âEfforts to Whitewash Opportunismâ and âThe Chkheidze Faction and Its Roleâ, which were published in Sbornik No. 2. - â P. Ryabovskyâthe pseudonym of L. N. Stark. In his letter of June 12, 1916, to Zinoviev, Ryabovsky wrote that a new publishing house, Volna, had been founded in Petrograd and offered him and Lenin to contribute to the symposiums which it planned to publish.
It afterwards transpired that the pseudonym âRyabovskyâ was used by Stark, who was suspected of being an agent provocateur, and Lenin refused to contribute to these publications. - â The meaning of this has not been ascertained.âEd.