V. I. Lenin

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LENIN — TO THE UNION COMMITTEE OF THE CAUCASIAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC ORGANISATIONS.

To the Caucasian Union1) from Lenin.
[December 2, 1904]

Dear Comrades,
We have just received the resolutions of your conference. Be sure to send a more careful copy again — much of it is illegible.
Also, do carry out your excellent plan as soon as possible — to send your special delegate here.
Without this, it is indeed extremely difficult, almost impossible, to come to a proper understanding and eliminate mutual misunderstandings. Yet at the present moment this is extremely necessary.
You are still far from knowing all the documents and all the vile deeds of the Council and the C.C.
There is not the slightest doubt that they have already wrecked the 3rd Congress and will now split all the committees. It is necessary immediately: 1) to form a bureau of the committees of the majority, 2) to transfer to it all matters concerning the Congress and all guidance of the committees, 3) to support our organ Vperyod, 4) to publish your resolutions (do you authorise us to do this?)2) and an announcement about the bureau.
Please reply as soon as possible.
Yours, Lenin.

We do not understand what the relation of your (Caucasian) bureau is to the all-Russian bureau of the committees of the majority. Write quickly, or better still, send a delegate.

V. I. LENIN — TO THE UNION COMMITTEE OF THE CAUCASIAN S.-D. ORGANISATIONS 141
*) The Caucasian Union consisted of the committees: Baku, Batum, Tiflis and Imeretia-Mingrelia, which had the authority to convene the Congress even according to the clarification of the Menshevik Party Council (see the list of authorised committees published in No. 89 of Iskra, of March 2 (February 17), 1905). The Union was approved by the C.C. as early as the autumn of 1903, receiving 8 decisive votes for the Congress (see the report of the O.C. on the convocation of the 3rd Congress. Minutes of the 3rd Congress, p. 43).
2) The resolutions of the Caucasian conference were not printed either in Iskra or in Vperyod. In No. 1 of Vperyod of January 4 (December 22), 1905, there is only a statement by the editorial board that the conference spoke in favour of the immediate convocation of the 3rd Congress and of support for the literary group of the "majority".