V. I.

Lenin

125

To:   A. I. YERAMASOV [1]

To Monk from Lenin, private

Dear Comrade, I was very glad to learn that it is now possible to establish more regular
contact with you. It would be good if you were to take advantage of this to
write me a few lines about how you feel and what the immediate prospects are. Up
till now all news of you has come through intermediaries, which always makes
mutual understanding rather difficult.

Throughout the year our Party affairs have been in a scandalous state, as you
have probably heard. The Minority has wrecked the Second Congress, created the
new Iskra (Have you seen it? What do you think of it?) and now, when
the vast majority of the committees that have expressed themselves at all have
vigorously rebelled against this new Iskra , the Minority has wrecked
the Third Congress as well. It has become all too obvious to the Minority that
the Party will not tolerate their organ of tittle-tattle and squabbling in the
struggle, of reversion to Rabocheye Dyelo -ism in matters of principle,
to the famous organisation-as-process theory.

The situation now has been made clear. The Majority committees have united (four
Caucasian and the Odessa, Ekaterinoslav, Nikolayev, St. Petersburg, Moscow,
Riga, Tver, Northern and Nizhni-Novgorod committees). I have begun here (with
new literary forces) to publish the news paper Vperyod (an announcement
has been issued, No. 1 will appear at the beginning of January, new style). Let
us know what you think of it and whether we can count on your support, which
would be extremely important for us.

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Notes:
[1]
Yeramasov, A. I. (died 1927)—a Social-Democrat, Iskrist. From
the time of Iskra up to the October Socialist Revolution gave
financial assistance to the Bolshevik Party.