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Letter to Lev Kamenev and Georgy Chicherin, July 10, 1920
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First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 401b
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1975, Moscow, Volume 44, page 401b
Kamenev and Chicherin
Comrade Kamenevâs plan is utterly incorrect.[1] Our business with Britain is purely commercial. Chicherin is not right. We should send to Britain only a âtradesmanâ; if they ask 2 1/4 kopeks, beat them down to 1 3/4 kopeks.
Exposures here are harmful. This is not 1918. We have the Comintern for that. All Kamenevâs argumentsâ arguments against his going.
Lenin
10/VII.
P.S. For the time being we shall appoint Krasin, Vorovsky and another 2â3 assistants.[2]
Lenin
- â This refers to Kamenevâs letter of July 9, 1920, concerning the nature of the Anglo-Russian talks, in which he wrote that political negotiations should be conducted âon the broadest agitational linesâ recounting âwidely and publicly the whole history of the intervention, including Kolchak, Denikin, Poland, Wrangel, Lithuania, Estonia, etc., etc., and touching on and raising all the questions of Eastern policy from Turkey to Chinaâ. = In his postscript to this letter Chicherin supported Kamenev, who in turn again put forward the proposalââwithout breaking off the negotiations, and in a mild tone, to present to Lloyd George the history of British plundering on a world scaleâ. = When Lenin read the letter, he wrote on it: = âI disagree in principle. 10/VII. Lenin.â (Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51, p. 438.)
Leninâs letter was a reply to these proposals. - â N. N. Krestinsky, Secretary of the CC, RCP(b), informed Lenin on July 11, 1920, that Chicherin was insisting that Kamenev and not Krasin should head the Soviet delegation that was being sent to Great Britain. Lenin wrote on Krestinskyâs letter: âI agree to Kamenev as chairman, Krasinâdeputy chairman.â (Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51, p. 438).