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V. I. LENIN — F. I. DAN.
Copy of the reply*.
December 2, 1903 [Geneva] — addressed to Potresov (for Dan).
Dear Comrade! The resolution of the personal conflict between 
myself and Martov could have been duly recorded in the appendices to 
the minutes of the League’s Congress. For my part, I would certainly have 
been only too glad to see this accomplished. However, no one possesses either 
the formal or the moral authority to alter the Congress minutes in any way, 
to excise certain passages from the account of what transpired.
With comradely greetings, N. Lenin.
1 In fact, Lenin’s wish was not fulfilled by the editors of the minutes. The 
“settlement of the personal conflict” between him and Martov was certified 
only by a footnote inserted by the editorial staff at the relevant passage in 
the minutes: “The question of arbitration was resolved through mutual 
explanations exchanged between Comrade Lenin and Comrade Martov after 
the League’s Congress” (“Minutes of the League’s Congress,” p. 66). The written 
statements that Lenin and Martov had exchanged on this matter were not 
published alongside the League Congress minutes. They were later printed in 
the “Commentaries on the Minutes of the Second Congress of the Foreign 
League,” published by a group of League-affiliated Bolsheviks (1904 edition, 
pp. 14–15; reprinted in the Istpart collection “How the Bolshevik Party Was 
Born,” 1925 edition, p. 38; see also these documents in the “Lenin Collection,” 
Vol. VII, pp. 291–295).
* The manuscript document consists of a handwritten copy of Lenin’s letter, 
inscribed on the reverse side of Dan’s previous letter. Ed.
*