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Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, August 1909
Published: First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1971, Moscow, Volume 36, page 165.
The last two-thirds of Kamenevâs article are quite bad, and can hardly be edited. I straightened out the first third (p. 1 to end of p. 5) but am not able to make any further alteration, because I see that what it needs is not editing but complete rewriting.
In this part of the article, Kamenev gives an incredibly woolly and confused expression, with thousands of frills, to his idea (that the Octobrists[1] and the Rightists are fighting over minor matters, that their struggles, dissensions, fights are inevitable in bourgeoisifying the monarchy and that from this fighting the revolution follows only indirectly, i.e., provided the proletariat enters the arena, and not directly, not by the bourgeoisie itself âgoing leftâ).
To my mind, we cannot publish it in this form.
Either persuade the author to rewrite the last two-thirdsâ and we shall then âeditâ the article, or have a hand yourself at rewriting the last two-thirds almost completely.
I enclose (pp. 1â3 in ink) an approximate plan for its rewriting.
- â Octobristsâa counter-revolutionary party of big industrialists and landowners formed soon after the tsarâs Manifesto of October 17, 1905 (whence their name). In it, the tsar, terrified by the revolution, promised âcivil libertiesâ and a constitution. The Octobrists fully supported the governmentâs domestic and foreign policies.