V. I.

Lenin

1903

46

To:   I. V. BABUSHKIN [1]

For Novitskaya from Lenin

Dear friend, As regards the “examination”, [2] I must say that it is
impossible to propose an examination programme from here. Let all the
propagandists write about the programme on which they are lecturing or wish to
lecture, and I shall answer in detail. You ask for more questions to be put to
you. Very well, only mind you answer them all:
1) What are the present Rules of
the St. Petersburg Committee?
2) Is there “discussion”?
3) What is its position in relation to the
Central Committee and the Workers’ Organisation?
4) The attitude of the
C.C. to the district organisation and to the workers’ groups?
5) Why did the
Iskrist workers tacitly permit Bouncer workers to call themselves a
“Workers’ Organisation Committee”?
6) Have measures been taken to keep
track of every step of the St. Petersburg Zubatov organisation [3] ?
7) Are regular lectures read (or talks arranged) in the workers’ circles on
the subject of organisation, on the significance of an “organisation of
revolutionaries”?
8) Is propaganda widely conducted among the
workers to the effect that it is they who should pass to an illegal
position as frequently and extensively as possible?
9) Have measures been
taken to ensure ten times as many letters from St. Petersburg, the flow of
which has been held up for a disgracefully long time?
10) Is the idea being
inculcated among all workers that it is they who ought to organise a
printing-press for leaflets and the proper distribution of the latter?

There are ten questions for you. I send you warm greetings
and await your reply. Mind you disappear at the first sign
that you are being spied on.