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Letter to V. I. Lavrov and Elena Stasova, December 27, 1902
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1974, Moscow, Volume 34, pages 126-127
Lavrov, V. I.âa Social-Democrat, Iskrist; from November 1902 was stand-in to Y. D. Stasova on the St. Petersburg Committee in case of her arrest. In 1903 was in charge of technical arrangements for the St. Petersburg Committee; conducted correspondence with Iskra. Re: Stasova, see Note 153. __GLOSSARY_LINK_COMMENT__
December 27
We have received Vlasâs letter. We shall give you what help we can. We have long been aware of your plight and have been thinking of assistance.
But you must immediately and without fail write us an accurate account of the split in St. Petersburg. Answer the following points: 1) Was the Organisation Committee (the summer one) elected by the League of Struggle[1] alone (=committee of intellectuals?) or by the Workersâ Organisation[2] as well? 2) When exactly was it elected? 3) Is there a precise record of its powers (i.e., what it was charged with doing)? 4) Wherein lay the irregularity of its election, according to Bouncer and Co.? 5) Were there delegates from the Workersâ Organisation (two?) in the Organisation Committee and by whom were they elected? 6) From what has Bouncer been chucked outâfrom the Organisation Committee or the Intellectualsâ Committee or the Workersâ Organisation? 7) What Workersâ Organisation is it that now writes its declarations? A new one? A reorganised one? when? how? 8) Why have you not sent us the September leaflet of the Committee of the Workersâ Organisation? 9) Why have you not issued even a handwritten leaflet against them?âor sent us a counter-declaration? Not one of their moves should be left unanswered. 10) What is this CC like now? Is there still an Organisation Committee? Are there workers on your side? Why havenât they formed a counter-organisation? Why donât your workers protest against Bouncer workers and their committee?
Send us immediately new, absolutely unused places of rendezvous for visitors. Do not give these (our) rendezvous to anyone else. Seek out beforehand a flat to shelter one person. Take special care to cover up traces of his contacts with the old members (Heron and others), who are probably being shadowed.
- â This refers to the St. Petersburg League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class organised by Lenin in the autumn of 1895. In December 1895 the tsarist government dealt the League a severe blow by arresting a considerable number of its leading members, Lenin included. The long absence of the Leagueâs founders, who were exiled to Siberia, facilitated the prosecution of an opportunist policy on the part of the âyoungâ members and the Economists, who, from 1897, through the newspaper Rabochaya Mysl, implanted on Russian soil the ideas of trade-unionism and Bernsteinism. In the second half of 1898 control of the League passed to the most outspoken of the Economists-the Rabochaya Mysl adherents. The old surviving members of the League took part in preparing and holding the First Congress of the RSDLP In the autumn of 1900 the League of Struggle amalgamated with the St. Petersburg Workersâ Organisation, and was recognised as the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP The struggle between the Iskrists and Economists in the St. Petersburg Organisation ended in the summer of 1902 with the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP adopting an Iskra stand.
- â Workersâ Organisationâan organisation of supporters of Economism, which arose in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1900. In the autumn of the same year it amalgamated with the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, and the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP was formed, consisting of two parts: the Committee proper, and the Committee of the Workersâ Organisation. With the Iskra trend gaining the ascendancy in the St. Petersburg Social-Democratic organisation (1902) the group of Economist-minded Social-Democrats broke away from the St. Petersburg Committee and again set up an independent Workersâ Organisation, which existed until the beginning of 1904.