V. I.

Lenin

The Meeting of the C.C. Members of the R.S.D.L.P.

May 28–June 4 (June 10–17), 1911

1

Letter to the Meeting of the C.C. Members of the R.S.D.L.P. Abroad [1]

Igorev’s piece of paper dated June 1, 1911, once again shows the disgraceful game being played around the convening of
the C.C.; that policy of delay and sabotage which the Central Organ of our
Party has been exposing for a long time, over a period of several months.

Igorev’s assertion that Yudin and

Kostrov [2] comprise a temporary Bureau or even a part of it, is out and
out lying. Over a long period of months , when Makar and

Lindov [3] (after Innokenty) constituted the Bureau organisation, selected agents, arranged a number of
visits connected with the affairs of the central organisation, organised
meetings with agents and candidates for co-option (Makar and

Katsap [4] and others, with Milyutin and others), established contact
with the general Party centre for Social-Democratic work in the Duma, and
with the city Social-Democratic circles at the time of the elections
(Moscow), etc., etc., no such work was carried out either by Yudin
or Kostrov. Precisely none , absolutely none of this kind of
activity was carried out by either one of them.

Not a single official body of the Party abroad (neither the
Central Organ nor the Central Committee Bureau Abroad) received a
single formal notification of the co-option of Yudin and Kostrov
to the Bureau.

For a period of more than two months following the arrest of
Makar and Lindov, not a single piece of paper, not a single letter was
received and no one heard a sound about Yudin or Kostrov regarding their
work in the Bureau. Not only were Yudin and Kostrov not recognised by
anyone as members of the Bureau (as were, without any argument, Makar and Lindov), but neither did Yudin or Kostrov ask for a kopek, and, unlike
Makar and Lindov, they did not inform the Central Committee Bureau Abroad
that they comprised the Bureau.

In such a state of affairs we maintain that Igorev’s reference to
Kostrov and Yudin comprising the “Bureau” is a mockery of the
Party, is deception of the Party. We shall expose this deception.

Further, after the experience of Inok, Makar and others, and following
the exposure by

Olgin, [5] etc., we regard all attempts to revive the Central Committee
in Russia with the old C.C. members, elected in London, as playing right into Stolypin’s hands . We warn the Party against those who are
angling for uninformed people, who send Central Committee members where
conditions are impossible , who send them on jobs that cannot be done , straight into the hands of the police .

Finally, as regards the “ plan ” to call a plenary meeting in
a month’s time , announced in Igorev’s paper of June 1, 1911, but
of which he said nothing to the Central Committee Bureau Abroad,
we draw the Party’s attention to a new intrigue of the liquidators
in connection with the convening of the Central Committee.

No Central Committee can be convened within a month, but it is possible
to “ bring together ” fictitious Central Committee members—that
is the kernel of the Golos intrigue.

Since the Plenary Meeting, four Bolshevik members of the
Central Committee (Meshkovsky + Innokenty + Makar + Lindov) have been lost
while engaged in the Central Committee work . The Mensheviks have
not lost one member , for not one of them has been working!!

And so now, the Golos group dare to propose a period of a
month calculating on bringing in such individuals as

Pyotr [6] who, for a whole year and a half (since the Plenary
Meeting) has not done a single stroke of work, who not once put in an appearance at the Bureau. The Golos group know
that within a month it is not possible to “ bring together ” Bolsheviks who are in exile either following a trial or by
administrative decision.

They sent the Central Committee to Russia “in order that it might be destroyed there ”!

They lived to see the day when all the Bolsheviks had been
arrested.

They were able to save all the fictitious Menshevik members
who had been inactive.

They want to fix a period of one month in which ficticious Central
Committee members like Pyotr could be brought there, and Bolsheviks who
were working could not even be notified!

They are wrong if they think that the game the liquidators are
playing with the convocation of a plenary meeting will not be disclosed to
the Party!

| Written between May 19 and 23 (June 1 and 5), 1911 | |

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Notes:
[1]
The manuscript had no heading. The heading has been provided by the
Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U.

[2]
Yudin (I. L. Eisenstadt), Kostrov (N. N. Zhordaniya)—members of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P.,
Menshevik-liquidators.

[3]
Makar (V. P. Nogin), Lindov (G. D. Leiteisen)—members of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P.,
Bolshevik-conciliators, arrested at the end of March 1911.

[4]
Katsap —A. Polyakov.

[5]
For the exposure by Olgin (pro-Party Menshevik, V. P. Fomin)

[6]
Pyotr (N. V. Ramishvili)—member of the Central Committee of
the R.S.D.L.P., one of the leaders of the Georgian Menshevik liquidators.