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Letter to Grigori Zinoviev, Prior to March 19, 1916
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 49. Sent from Zurich to Berne. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, pages 517b-518.
I am sending copy to be set up. I am finishing the article on the âpeace programmeâ, etc. (for the editorial), and will send it in tomorrow.[1]
The I.S.C.âs âAppealâ should be supplemented by a brief notice of the agenda, the terms of admission, etc.[2]
We absolutely cannot disclose the pseudonym of âSpartacusâ.[3] We absolutely cannot; it would mean helping Internationale Korrespondenz to reprint it from us: we would be helping the informers.
Our âreservationâ, statement (5â8. II) we made when voting for the circular, must be inserted fully and without fail.
âCrooks of the penâ wonât do. I suggest amendments (pp. 1, 2, 3).[4] This should be written with a minimum of invective, in an elaborately explanatory way. It would be a good thing to enumerate the facts, collect the references of the OC Secretariat Abroad (No. 2 of the Bulletin). (+No. 3 of Izvestia) to Samara, the Caucasus, Nad, etc., and show that in Russia all the OC people are participants. I strongly advise having this article rewritten another 2 or 3 times, and sent to me again, in order to make it a good and accurate exposition: this is extremely important.
Give Self-Defence to Shklovsky, Kasparov & Co. for 2â3 days, then return to me at once.
I still have no copies (of the German theses on self-determination). When is this going to end???
If Radek is holding up No. 2 of Vorbote, this is foul play on his part. We must think over ways of combating this. Should we not send a collective letter to Roland-Holst? Why not? Why should we stand on ceremony with him? This is a broken promise, weâll say, itâs bad for the business, itâs bad faith, itâs an obstacle to the discussion for the April conference, precisely at the conference!
Return my theses (on peace, etc.) to me immediately: I have to redraft them. You had better not show them to Radek until they have been redrafted.
Salut!
Lenin
Why donât you send me Nash Golos?[5] I havenât seen it since Martovâs âself-determinationâ articles. Has the promised answer to him appeared there?
What about the Bureau of the Zimmerwald Left? Didnât it have to prepare a report to the April conference?[6] And the theses?? What about it?
- â A reference to the article âThe Peace Programmeâ (see present edition, Vol. 22, pp. 161â68).âEd.
- â This refers to the publication in No. 52 of Sotsial-Demokrat of the appeal of the I.S.C. âTo All Affiliated Parties and Groupsâ in connection with the convocation of the Second International Socialist Conference, giving a brief notice of the agenda and the terms of admission to the conference as printed in the I.S.C. Bulletin No. 3 for February 29, 1916.
- â The letter concerns preparation for the press of the article âThe Alternativeâ, which was published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 57 on December 30, 1916, with the editorâs note: âThis article is reprinted from Spartacus, No. 1, the illegal organ of the German revolutionary Social-Democrats.â
The next paragraph in the letter mentions the statement made at the enlarged meeting of the I.S.C. in February 1916 during the discussion of the appeal âTo All Affiliated Parties and Groupsâ. In voting for the text of the appeal, the representatives of the Zimmerwald Left declared at the meeting that although they did not consider it satisfactory on all points, they were voting for it because they considered it a step forward compared with the decisions of the First International Socialist Conference in Zimmerwald. - â This refers to Zinovievâs article âHow Liquidationism Turned into Social-Chauvinismâ (published in Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata).
- â Nash Golos (Our Voice)âa legal Menshevik newspaper published in Samara from 1915 to 1916; adopted a social-chauvinist stand.
- â This refers to the Second International Socialist Conference which was to be held in April 1916.