V. I.

Lenin

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To:   M. N. LYADOV

To throw light on the matter [1] I wish to add: 1) that the claim that Osipov “resigned at the
previous meeting” is an obvious lie , since Glebov, who was present at this meeting , himself signed the agreement of May
1904 referring to... members of the C.C., including Osipov.

2) I was never officially informed of Travinsky’s resignation.

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the “July Declaration” of the C.C. and the violation
of the decisions of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. by the
conciliators in the C.C.

The “ July Declaration ” was a resolution adopted by the
conciliators in the C.C., L. B. Krasin, V. A. Noskov and L. Y. Galperin, in
July 1904 without the knowledge of the two remaining members, Lenin and
Rozalia Zemlyachka, who were not given an opportunity to defend in the
C.C. the position of the Majority of the Party. In this resolution the
conciliators endorsed the Menshevik composition of the Editorial Board of
Iskra which G. V. Plekhanov had co-opted, and co-opted into the
C.C. three other conciliators—A. I. Lyubimov, L. Y. Karpov and
I. F. Dubrovinsky. The conciliators opposed the convocation of the

Third Congress of the Party and dissolved the Southern Bureau of the C.C.,
which was conducting agitation for the congress. They deprived Lenin of the
right to represent the C.C. abroad and prohibited the publication of his
writings without the collegial permission of the C.C.

Local Party committees—in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Baku and
elsewhere—supported Lenin and strongly condemned the “July Declaration”
(see this volume, Document 85).