V. I.

Lenin

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To:   V. I. LAVROV AND YELENA STASOVA [1]

December 27

We have received Vlas’s letter. We shall give you what help we can. We have long been aware of your plight and
have been thinking of assistance.

But you must immediately and without fail write us an accurate account of the
split in St. Petersburg. Answer the following points:
1) Was the Organisation
Committee (the summer one) elected by the League of
Struggle [2] alone (=committee of intellectuals?) or by the Workers’
Organisation [3] as well?
2) When exactly was it elected?
3) Is there a precise record of
its powers (i.e., what it was charged with doing)?
4) Wherein lay the
irregularity of its election, according to Bouncer and Co.?
5) Were there
delegates from the Workers’ Organisation (two?) in the Organisation Committee
and by whom were they elected?
6) From what has Bouncer been chucked
out—from the Organisation Committee or the Intellectuals’ Committee or
the Workers’ Organisation?
7) What Workers’ Organisation is it that now writes
its declarations? A new one? A reorganised one? when? how?
8) Why have you not
sent us the September leaflet of the Committee of the Workers’ Organisation?
9) Why have you not issued even a handwritten leaflet against them?—or
sent us a counter-declaration? Not one of their moves should be left
unanswered.
10) What is this C.C. like now? Is there still an Organisation
Committee? Are there workers on your side? Why haven’t they formed a
counter-organisation? Why don’t your workers protest against Bouncer
workers and their committee?

Send us immediately new, absolutely unused places of rendezvous for visitors. Do not give these (our) rendezvous
to anyone else. Seek out beforehand a flat to shelter one
person. Take special care to cover up traces of his contacts
with the old members (Heron and others), who are probably
being shadowed.