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Letter to Ivan Babushkin, January 6, 1903
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1974, Moscow, Volume 34, pages 129-130
Babushkin, Ivan Vasilyevich (1873-1906)âa professional revolutionary, started revolutionary activities in 1893. An active member of the St. Petersburg and Ekaterinoslav Leagues of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class. Took an active part in organising the Leninist newspaper Iskra (1900). An active participant in the revolution of 1905-07.
For Novitskaya from Lenin[edit source]
Dear friend,
As regards the âexaminationâ,[1] I must say that it is impossible to propose an examination programme from here. Let all the propagandists write about the programme on which they are lecturing or wish to lecture, and I shall answer in detail. You ask for more questions to be put to you. Very well, only mind you answer them all: 1) What are the present Rules of the St. Petersburg Committee? 2) Is there âdiscussionâ? 3) What is its position in relation to the Central Committee and the Workersâ Organisation? 4) The attitude of the CC to the district organisation and to the workersâ groups? 5) Why did the Iskrist workers tacitly permit Bouncer workers to call themselves a âWorkersâ Organisation Committeeâ? 6) Have measures been taken to keep track of every step of the St. Petersburg Zubatov organisation[2]? 7) Are regular lectures read (or talks arranged) in the workersâ circles on the subject of organisation, on the significance of an âorganisation of revolutionariesâ? 8) Is propaganda widely conducted among the workers to the effect that it is they who should pass to an illegal position as frequently and extensively as possible? 9) Have measures been taken to ensure ten times as many letters from St. Petersburg, the flow of which has been held up for a disgracefully long time? 10) Is the idea being inculcated among all workers that it is they who ought to organise a printing-press for leaflets and the proper distribution of the latter?
There are ten questions for you. I send you warm greetings and await your reply. Mind you disappear at the first sign that you are being spied on.
- â Lenin received a letter from Babushkin asking him to make out a question paper for âexaminingâ members of the propagandist group, that is, to ascertain their position in regard to Iskra principles.
- â Zubatov organisation pursued a policy of âpolice socialismâ initiated by S. V. Zubatov, a Colonel of the Gendarmes and Chief of the Moscow Secret Political Police, under which legal workersâ organisations were set up during 1901-03 for the purpose of diverting the workers from the political struggle against the autocracy.