V. I.

Lenin

96

To:   THE TVER COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P. [1]

26/XI.

Dear Comrade, Both copies of your resolution received. They were not turned over to
the Central Organ because recently the following happened. The Nikolayev
Committee sent a resolution to be forwarded to Iskra , which was
done. The resolution was returned by Martov accompanied by gross abuse. The
C.C. and the Central Organ, he said, knew for certain that there was no committee in Nikolayev and that the resolution had
therefore obviously been written by some frauds and impostors. Since the
resolution bore no signatures, no date, and no indication of the attitude
of the periphery to it, it was meaningless, he said, and he, Martov, even
refused to forward it to the Central Organ, declaring he was sick and tired
of all this fabrication of false resolutions. The same fate evidently
awaits the Tver resolution. We shall print it in a Majority leaflet.

Please let us know how things are going.

Did you receive the Iskra letter to the Party organisations
concerning the Zemstvo campaign? In it, the editors in their striving for a
“new and higher type” talked a lot of nonsense, including the absurdity
that the workers should not frighten away the liberals but act so as not to
cause panic among them. The letter has caused a heated debate. Lenin
replied to it in his pamphlet The Zemstvo Campaign and “Iskra’s” Plan . [2]

Please let us have addresses to which we can send literature. The
addresses you sent the resolution to are quite alright. A certain Rogova
will come to you from Perm. She is said to be a good worker. We do not know
her personally but perhaps she will be of use to you. Her status is
illegal, please help her to get settled.

The key for communicating with Bolshak is Gambetta:
South American states 34b., й in the middle. Bolshak asks that a
passport and small files be sewn into the soles of a pair of boots and
passed on to him through Nekrasova or relatives.

Please acknowledge receipt of our letters at once. Greetings.

Lenin