V. I.

Lenin

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To:   G. D. LEITEISEN

19/4. 05

Dear L., It is impossible to get an Organising Committee credential for you to
deliver greetings to the congress. [2] I thought at first that our congress would open by April 22
and that it would issue you a credential, hut that did not work out; our
congress is being delayed. [1]

You can say you are speaking for the Editorial Board of Vperyod
and deliver greetings to the congress in its name, and through it,
in the name of the R.S.D.L.P. That will be the best.

The item about Martov’s lies is going in. [3] Write from the congress.

Yours,
V. Ulyanov

P.S. In Neue Zeit No. 29 Kautsky again told a pack of lies
about Vperyod and
Iskra ! [4] It would be a good thing for you to “correct” him
in your speech at the congress.

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Notes:
[1]
The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. opened on April 12 (25),
1905.— Ed .

[2]
The reference is to the Congress of the French Socialists held April
23–25, 1905, in Paris, at which the followers of Guesde and Jaurès
united.

[3]
This refers to Y. 0. Martov’s article “A Party Congress or a Congress
of Groups?” in Iskra No. 94, March 25, 1905. In it Martov held up
the Guesdists as an example to the “Leninists”, falsely asserting that
the Guesdists had recourse to mediation by Bebel and the German
Social-Democrats. Leiteisen replied to Martov in an item entitled “A
Slight Correction!” in Vperyod No. 15, April 20 (7).

[4]
Kautsky’s article “Die Differenzen unter den russischen Sozialisten”,
published in Die Neue Zeit No. 29, was printed in Russian
translation in Iskra No. 97 under the heading “The Differences
Between Russian Socialists”. The article said: “... there are no
revisionists in the Russian party.... He (Lenin.— Ed .) stands for
strict centralism and dictatorial rights for the Central Committee, while
Axelrod and his friends want to give more leeway for the activity of the
local committees.”