V. I.

Lenin

71

To:   THE DON COMMITTEE OF THE R.S.D.L.P.

Comrades, We have received your letter with the resolution. [1] We earnestly
request you to write to us on the following:
1) Have you heard reports from both the Minority and the Majority (one of
your delegates, as you probably know, was on the side of the Majority), or
only from the Minority?
2) What do you mean by the word “departure”? Departure—where
to? Do you mean by this that someone has been removed from work, or
has removed himself, for some reason or other, and for what reasons
precisely?
3) What is it you call “abnormal conditions at elections”?
4) Who exactly, in your opinion, should be co-opted on to the Central Committee? and
5) who
exactly on to the editorial board of the Central Organ?