V. I.

Lenin

317

To:   INESSA ARMAND

25/I.

Dear Friend, I am writing you briefly on business: Victory!! Hurrah! The majority
are for us. I shall stay here about a week, and shall probably have a lot
of work to do.

I am delighted that we have won. [1]

Sincerely yours,

V. I.

Oulianoff, rue de la Tulipe. 11. Bruxelles (Ixelles)

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Notes:
[1]
On the eve of the Fourth Congress of the Social-Democrats of the
Lettish Region, the evening of January 25 (N. S.), 1914, Lenin delivered a
lecture in Brussels for the Congress delegates on the national question,
which was listened to with tremendous interest. His meeting with the
delegates was exceptionally cordial.

The Congress, which opened the next day, was a turning point in the
history of the S.D. Party of the Lettish Region. It adopted resolutions of a Bolshevik nature on practically all questions, except for
certain amendments which the Mensheviks and conciliators contrived to
wangle. The Congress’s greatest achievement was the election of a Central
Committee that took a Bolshevik stand and the passing of the Central Organ
Zihna into the control of Bolshevik adherents.