Letter to Inessa Armand, July 9, 1914

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Author(s) Lenin
Written 9 July 1914


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Written in July, prior to 9th, 1914
Published: First published in 1964 in Collected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 48. Sent from Poronin to Lovran. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 43, page 412a.
Keywords : Inessa Armand, Letter

Dear Friend,[1]

Re a joint or different delegations with the liquidators, I would advise you not to decide that now, i. e., not to mention it. “The delegates will decide themselves”[2]

(and we, of course, will make it two different ones: according to the Rules of the International, we should first try a joint one, and if no agreement is reached, then the issue is decided by the distribution of votes in the Bureau).

Re Kollontai’s report, I agree with you: let her remain, but not from Russia. In the debates you will take the floor first or second.

Best wishes,

Yours truly,[3]

V. I.

I was expecting a reply from you today. Nothing yet. Letters take longer than to Brussels!

We received the parcel. Many thanks. I’ve got your despatch. Many, many thanks! Mr. chairman is not yet here!! And I do not yet know, if my proposition (to send you) will be voted (if not, Gregory will go himself). More thanks!![4]

  1. ↑ ["*" DUPLICATE 1 OF 3.]
    The words in italics marked with an asterisk are in English in the original.—Ed.
  2. ↑ This refers to delegates to the International Socialist Women’s Conference in Vienna fixed for August 1914 but, owing to the war, held instead at Berne only on March 26–28, 1915.
  3. ↑ ["*" DUPLICATE 2 OF 3.]
    The words in italics marked with an asterisk are in English in the original.—Ed.
  4. ↑ ["*" DUPLICATE 3 OF 3.]
    The words in italics marked with an asterisk are in English in the original.—Ed.
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