159 The first vote to which V. I. Lenin refers concerns V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich's proposal for the election of the congress bureau consisting of three persons. Bonch-Bruyevich proposed that one person in the bureau be elected by supporters of the majority at the Second Congress of the RSDLP, another by supporters of the minority, and a third by the League assembly. The Mensheviks opposed this order of election; seeking to exploit their majority at the League congress and push Menshevik candidates into the bureau, they proposed electing three persons to the bureau without taking into account whether the elected person was a supporter of the party congress majority or opposition. This proposal, which Trotsky defended in his speech, was put in written form by Martov and put to a vote alongside Bonch-Bruyevich's proposal.

160 Note: "Vice" in the first instance refers to the process of electing vice-chairs of the congress; in the second instance it refers to the results of these elections. According to the congress protocols of the League, M. M. Litvinov received 13 votes.

161 This concerns a letter from the representative of the CC RSDLP F. V. Lengnik to the congress of the Foreign League. The letter expressed the hope that the League, guided by the party statute, would work out a new statute for itself, which would be approved by the Central Committee of the RSDLP.

162 This refers to protracted debates on the question of whether to grant voting rights at the congress to members of the Foreign League who were in Russia. The Bolsheviks stood for granting them voting rights, the Mensheviks opposed it. The substance of the matter was that two members of the Foreign League, who had traveled to Russia shortly before the congress — possibly M. N. Leman (Lisa) and P. G. Smidovich (Vasily Ivanovich) — transferred their votes to the Bolshevik N. E. Bauman. The Mensheviks fought against recognizing the credentials of members who had gone to Russia, fearing that this would increase the votes of supporters of the Second Congress majority of the party.

163 The vote noted here refers to M. Korenevsky's (Emmanulov's) proposal that voting rights be retained for members of the Foreign League who had gone to Russia no more than 3 months ago.

Henceforth according to mandates.

1. Report of the administration.

2. [?] of delegate.

3. Statute.

4. Elections{151}.

165 The notes with the headings "Ours" and "Martvans" represent an account of the actual balance of forces between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at the Foreign League congress. Among the 13 Bolsheviks, who are not listed by name here, were 12 persons who signed the "Open Letter to Members of the Foreign League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy" (see Lenin Collection VII, pp. 72–76) and O. A. Pyatnitsky.

In the lower right (extreme) column are listed the names of those six members of the Foreign League whose position at the first session was not yet sufficiently clear. In the course of subsequent sessions of the congress, it became clear that four of the named persons revealed themselves as supporters of the Menshevik opposition, while K. M. Takhtarev (Tar), who also held the vote of A. A. Yakubova (Tar), occupied a neutral position.

First published in 1928 in Lenin Collection VII

Printed from the manuscript