V. I.

Lenin

For Y. Larin

Dear Comrade, To my regret, the list of contributors, the indefinite
nature of the miscellany, the restrictions imposed on the
contributors, and the lack of information about some of
them—all of this obliges me to decline to participate. [1]

With Social-Democratic greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The letter is Lenin’s reply to Y. Larin’s proposal to take part in
a collection criticising defencism and substantiating the
Zimmerwald platform. It was to be published legally in Russia. Among the
contributors abroad were to be Axelrod, Lunacharsky and Martov.
In Russia, they were being selected by N. Sukhanov. The terms
on which these were accepted included, in particular, the
stipulation that “the articles of the collection should not contain
any attacks by contributors against each other”. The collection
was not issued.