...of the International Socialist Bureau, etc.), and without this, probably the ISB will not
intervene, and they will reject the formulation of the question on formal grounds. One should
not improve the situation of Tyshka and Co. by a step on your part that could provoke a refusal
from the ISB.

I advise the commission to write a cautious informational letter to Guésde (emphasizing chiefly
that Z. G.* refuses to permit verification of his "court" by the court of parties affiliated** to the ISB
operating in Russia) with a request to help shame (respectively, to exert moral influence on) the
Central Board. This is better than a premature formal appeal with the risk of failure.

If Plekhanov answers you, then I hope you will inform me.

With social-democratic greetings, N. Lenin
Ulianow. Ul. Lubomirskiego. 51. Krakow.

Sent to Paris

First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript