— not only conceal with these shouts their moral (and not only moral) complicity in the violation of the Plenum resolution.*

6. [The Plekhanovist Olgin5 has exposed a fact: that Dan directly explained the Golosovtsy's desire to transfer the C.C. to Russia by the probability (or inevitability) of its collapse. The Party court will have to pronounce on this.] Whoever has followed the politics of the Golosovtsy over the course of a year will not doubt that they have actually been undermining and obstructing the C.C. The London candidates of the Golosovtsy are not only alive, but are conducting political work in an anti-Party spirit, both in workers' unions and in the press. By not appearing at C.C. meetings, they confirm their liquidationism. [Therefore we are obliged to warn the Russian comrades in the C.C., working under desperately difficult conditions (for they are all known to the police), that an internal enemy threatens them in the Party.] It is impossible to get by without at least some foreign base, if one does not risk the danger that a single collapse could [unleash the hands of the schismatic Potresovtsy acting as they do. [One cannot leave abroad the Foreign Bureau of the C.C., which has now adopted a policy of aid to the Vperyodovtsy, Golosovtsy, and Trotsky. One cannot trust mere promises or "subscriptions" to resolutions: one must, if one wishes to be a realistic politician and not delude oneself with mere formalities, look at the ideological-political trends growing out of the workers' movement and from counter-revolutionary influences upon it.

These trends have grown and developed since 1908, bringing Plekhanovists closer to Bolsheviks, creating a bloc of supporters and concealers of decomposition—Golosovtsy, Vperyodovtsy, and Trotsky. The immediate future of our Party (one cannot close one's eyes to this) will inevitably be determined by struggle along precisely this line—not the will of persons and groups, but the objective conditions of the epoch, indicated in the Plenum resolution, call forth such a struggle.

Representatives of the Bolshevik current, who concluded an agreement with the C.C. in 1/10 [January 1910] (three persons and by proxy a fourth, [Meshkovskoy]).

Lenin. Kamenev. Grigory.

[Postscript by G. Zinoviev.]

A year of work after the Plenum has shown that the Golosovtsy sit within Party collegiums with a single aim: to spoil Party work from within and to help the liquidators in their destructive work. Under such conditions, to leave even a single Golosovist in the central Party institutions is simply—simply a crime against the Party. In no party has it been seen that people openly aiding the enemies and destroyers of the Party, condemned by the Party, should be seated in the Party's leading institutions.

According to our deep conviction, only comrades prepared to fight decisively against liquidationism (Golosovtsy) and recallism (Vperyodovtsy) should be in the central institutions of the Party.

If the C.C. places its work on such foundations, it will meet the support of all genuine Party members (both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks). Otherwise, it will only ensure work for the liquidators and recallists.

1 The "Russian Collegium of the C.C." after the January Plenum of the C.C. of 1910 included from the Bolsheviks: I. P. Goldenberg (Meshkovskoy), I. F. Dubrovinsky (Innokenty), V. P. Nogin (Makar), A. I. Rykov (Vlasov), and G. D. Lindov (Leiteizen); from the Mensheviks: Noe Zhordania (Kostrov), N. V. Ramishvili (Peter), I. A. Issuv (Michael), K. M. Ermolaev (Roman), P. A. Bronstein (Yury), and 3 representatives from national organizations (for details on the work of the "Russian Collegium," see Works, vol. XV, p. 616, note 36).

2 Justification of date: from the content of the letter, it is evident that it was written shortly after the statement of B. Gorev to the Foreign Bureau of the C.C., dated 17 February 1911.

3 The matter concerns a declaration by the Bolsheviks at the January Plenum of the C.C. of 1910, cited in the resolutions of the Plenum (see "Sotsial-Demokrat," No. 11).

4 See "Resolution Adopted at the General Meeting of the Party S.D. Club in Vienna of 26 November 1910." Published as a separate leaflet and reprinted in the appendix to No. 19—20 of "Sotsial-Demokrat" (see in detail Works, vol. XV, p. 610, note 13).

5 "Olgin"—Valentin Fomin, a Plekhanovist Menshevik in 1910—1911.