Letter to Ivan Fedorovich Popov, July, prior to 10th, 1914

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Take good care of all the documents which you will receive from Paris, St. Petersburg and elsewhere for your work at the conference, and then return them to me with care.

If St. Petersburg sends you Stoikaya Mysl[1] No. 18 and bourgeois newspapers for 4.IV and 5.IV. 1914, these should be added as material to the CC report (on the question of the liquidators’ attitude to the demonstration of 4.1V[2]). The report is being sent to Inessa.

Your and Vladimirsky’s chief duty (Inessa is the French speaker) is to write down as accurately as possible every thing that goes on, especially the speeches of the Germans, and especially of Kautsky—and send in a report on this to the CC

Demand a translation of everything into French and do not accept the German language (in this sense).

  1. ↑ Stoikaya Mysl (Staunch Thought)—one of the names under which the Left-Narodnik (Socialist-Revolutionary) newspaper Trudovoi Golos (Voice of Labour) was published. It appeared in St. Petersburg in 1914 three times a week.
  2. ↑ On the appeal of the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP a demonstration was held in the city on April 4 (17), 1914, in response to the lockout by the St. Petersburg mill owners. The demonstration was timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the Lena shootings. On that day Put Pravdy published as an editorial Lenin’s article “Forms of the Working-Class Movement (The Lockout and Marxist Tactics)” (see present edition, Vol. 20, pp. 209–12). In the Report of the CC of the RSDLP to the Brussels Conference Lenin devoted a good deal of space to describing the significance of this demonstration and exposing the activities of the liquidators (ibid., pp. 509–12).