On Behalf of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party

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This was written by Lenin in connection with the decision by the “Group of Founders” to set up a library and archives of the RSDLP Central Committee at Geneva. Together with the appeal of the “Group of Founders” for assistance in organising the Party library and archives, it was published in p leaflet “To One and All” (put out by the Party printing-press in Geneva).

On February 7 (20), 1904, Lenin, as a member of the RSDLP Central Committee, signed the “Regulations of the Library and Archives of the RSDLP Central Committee” (the document is written in V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich’s hand).

Later Lenin wrote the “Statement by the Group of Founders of the RSDLP Library at Geneva” on the transfer of the RSDLP library to the Majority Committees’ Bureau (see p. 136). The next sitting of the M.C.B., on Lenin’s motion, confirmed the members of the earlier “Group of Founders” as the supervisory committee of the library and archives of the RSDLP A report on this committee’s activity was submitted to the Party Congress (see Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P. Protokoly, Moscow, 1959, pp. 533–37). The library was in existence for 13 years, until the February 1917 revolution. At present, the collections of the library and the archives of the RSDLP are at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the CPSU Central Committee. p. 111

We whole-heartedly welcome the excellent idea of the “Group of Founders” to set up a library and archives of the Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, and earnestly request all comrades and all those sympathising with this long overdue measure to give every possible assistance to our comrades who have under taken the effort in organising this complex and important business.

Central Committee of the RSDLP

January 29, 1904