V. I.

Lenin

1905

108

To:   V. A. NOSKOV, L. B. KRASIN AND L. Y. GALPERIN, MEMBERS OF THE C.C., R.S.D.L.P. [1]

To Members of the C.C. Glebov Nikitich Valentin

Geneva, 13.I. 05

Dear Sirs, Enclosed you will find my statement in reply to yours in Iskra
No. 77. [2] My representatives in the arbitration are Comrades Schwarz
and Voinov. Address for communication with them: forwarding office of the
newspaper Vperyod , for so-and-so.

N. Lenin

Sent in two envelopes to the address: Mr. P. Axelrod. 4. Bd. Pont
d’Arve. 4.

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Notes:
[1]
The letter has the word “ Copy ” on it in Lenin’s hand.— Ed .

[2]
The statement Lenin sent to the Bolshevik conciliators L. B. Krasin,
V. A. Noskov and L. Y. Galperin, members of the C.C., R.S.D.L.P., was
written in connection with the “July Declaration” of the C.C. (see
Note 76).

In July 1904 the three C.C. members passed, without Lenin’s knowledge,
a resolution recognising as lawful the co-opting by

Plekhanov into the Iskra Editorial Board of Mensheviks who had
been voted down by the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., and forbidding
Lenin to take any important action as C.C. representative abroad unless
empowered to do so by the C.C., there by depriving him of his powers as the
Party’s representative abroad.

Although Lenin on August 18, 1904, challenged the resolution inasmuch
as he had not been invited to the C.C. meeting or even informed that the
question would be taken up, the resolution was printed in Iskra
No. 72 on August 25.

On November 5, Iskra No. 77 carried a statement of the
C.C. accusing Lenin, who continued to consider himself a member of the
C.C. and said so publicly, of doing so allegedly “with the object of
disorganising the Party”. The C.C. proposed that the conflict be submitted
to arbitration by leaders of international Social-Democracy.