...to remove Mensheviks from work) and they conducted intensive agitation against the committee the whole time. The Central Committee gave no literature to the committee, the Mensheviks had literature, but of course they didn't give it to the committee. The Mensheviks made no preparations for a demonstration in their districts. Three days before the demonstration, the Mensheviks disrupt a committee meeting and, taking advantage of the absence of 3 Bolsheviks, sabotage the demonstration—15,000 leaflets are burned. When the Bolsheviks, in horror, convene a new meeting, it is already too late; nothing can be accomplished and the workers are almost entirely absent from the demonstration. The indignation against the committee is terrible, and now the Mensheviks, who orchestrated all this filth, separate themselves, draw away nearly all the districts, receive reinforcement through literature, connections, money. Now in Petersburg there are 2 committees. The same thing will undoubtedly be done in other cities. The Mensheviks spare no means, and, taking advantage of the fact that they have seized control of the CC, the CO and the Soviet, will pursue such a line that nothing will remain of the majority—not even a trace. What kind of struggle over principles is this! The most brazen mockery of both the party and principles. That is why we have begun to publish our own organ. There is complete schism in the party and one cannot delay if one does not wish to reconcile oneself with the sacrifice of party character to cliquishness, with the establishment of unprincipled conduct in the party for a long time, or with its being thrown back toward Economism and trade-unionism.

Written in December, not earlier than the 25th, 1904

In the handwriting of N. K. Krupskaya

Sent from Geneva

Published for the first time, from a copy