V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v46;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF ISKRA*

To the Editorial Board of the Central Organ

12. XII. 03.

As a representative of the Central Committee, I received today from Comrade Martov an inquiry as to whether it is permissible to publish
information about the negotiations between the Central Committee and the Geneva opposition.252 I think it is, and I earnestly request the
comrades on the editorial board of the Central Organ to weigh once again the question of a good peace in the party.

It is not yet too late to secure this peace; it is not yet too late to withhold from the public and from our enemies the details of the split and the talk about unseemly conduct and falsified lists—talk which will probably be exploited even by the *Moskovskiye Vedomosti*.253 I guarantee that the majority will readily agree to consign all this filth to oblivion, provided a good peace in the party is ensured.

Everything now depends on the editorial board of the Central Organ, which includes representatives of the former opposition that rejected the Central Committee’s peace proposal of 25. XI. 03.254 I ask you, comrades, to take into consideration that the Central Committee has since then made two further voluntary concessions, by advising Comrade Roux to resign and by attempting to settle matters amicably with the League.

Meanwhile, the boycott of the Central Committee, agitation against it, and the disorganisation of practical work in Russia continue. We are receiving letters from Russia saying that the opposition is creating a “hell” there. We have the most definite information that agents of the minority are systematically continuing their disorganising work, travelling to the committees. We are receiving letters from St. Petersburg about Martyn’s trip there for that purpose. Matters have reached such a point that the opposition is organising its own transport and, through Dan, is offering it to the Central Committee on a half-and-half basis!

I consider it my duty to the party to ask the editorial board of the Central Organ for the last time to induce the opposition

to sign a good peace on the basis of a sincere recognition by both sides of both centres and a cessation of mutual strife, which makes any joint work impossible.

Written in Geneva (local)

First published in 1929
in the Lenin Miscellany X

Printed from the manuscript