to identify individuals engaged in campaigning for the congress—this requirement for signatures carries a very specific significance. All of this is aimed at making it more difficult to agitate for the congress. But since the committees have expressed themselves with remarkable clarity, the minority has now launched an attack against the committees. They are doing everything in their power to undermine the committees’ authority—in the eyes of local society and in the eyes of the workers, whom they are literally inciting against the committees. They are particularly intent on exerting influence on the peripheries. One can easily imagine the degree of disruption this causes to the party’s work. At present, the minority is laying siege to Petrograd. Such is the state of affairs within the Party—far from cheerful, to say the least. Please send us a report on attendance; from here, people often depart—and perhaps some will even head for the Urals.

With comradely greetings, L.

P.S. Request that the Central Committee supply publications issued by the majority.

Handwritten by N.K. Krupskaya

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Written on October 28, 1904.

Sent from Geneva

First published in 1930.

In Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XV

Printed according to the original text