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Letter to Pyotr Zalutsky and Aaron Solts, December 20, 1921
First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from a typewritten copy.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1976, Moscow, Volume 45, pages 413-415.
Comrade Zalutsky and Comrade Solts
I have learned about the expulsion from the Party of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva. I have personally seen her work as a secretary of the C.P.C. Managing Department, i.e., at very close range. However, I consider it necessary to point out that I have known the whole Alliluyev family, i.e., the father, the mother and the two daughters, since before the October Revolution. In particular, during the July days, when Zinoviev and I had to hide out and the danger was very great, it is this family that hid me, and the four of them, with the complete confidence of the Party Bolsheviks at the time, not only gave us both asylum, but also rendered a number of other secret services without which we would not have been able to escape Kerensky’s bloodhounds. It could very well be that in view of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva’s youth, this circumstance has not been made known to the commission. Nor am I aware whether the commission was able, in examining the case of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva, to make a comparison of the facts about her father, who had worked in various capacities in assisting the Party long before the revolution, and had, I have heard, rendered important services to the illegal Bolsheviks under tsarism.
I consider it my duty to inform the Central Commission for Purging the Party of these circumstances.[1]
20.00 hours, December 20, 1921.
Lenin
Comrade Zalutsky and Comrade Solts
I have had a letter from Comrade Kasparova-Popova (address: 3 House of Soviets, Flat 63, telephone 58–97). She writes that she is absolutely desperate about her expulsion from the Party, and asks me to intercede with the Central Commission for Purging the Party and request them to make a thorough verification of her case, referring to her brother Slava Kasparov and her husband Popov, who had been sent to the Far East, by Comrade Sverdlov and was killed there. She writes that, together with her brother, she began to take an interest in the Party at the age of 14, was a member of school study circles, and joined the Party at the age of 17, doing purely technical work.
I do not know this Kasparova personally, or have forgotten her, but I knew her brother very well abroad, where he was an émigré after the first revolution of 1905, was a member of the Bolshevik organisation, and enjoyed the well-deserved respect of all Bolsheviks with whom I had occasion to meet and who had seen Kasparov work. This Kasparov died in Switzerland before the 1917 revolution (his health being overtaxed by the difficult conditions of émigré life).
I shall try to collect information about anyone who may have known Kasparov’s sister better.
For my part, I request the Central Commission for Purging the Party to verify the case of Comrade Kasparova’s expulsion from the Party.[2]
Lenin
20.00 hours, December 20, 1921.
- ↑ Nadezhda Alliluyeva was reinstated in the Party.
- ↑ Yevgenia Popova (Kasparova) was reinstated in the Party.
On the document there is the following inscription by C.P.C. secretary Natalya Lepeshinskaya: “Vladimir Ilyich earnestly asks Comrades Stalin, Safarov, Zinoviev and Kornblyum urgently to give information about Comrade Kasparova and also to find out who else of the comrades knows her well and what they could say about her.”