V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v47; en:CW/CW43;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

TO THE COMMITTEES OF THE R.S.D.L.P.

Address: Absolute
To members of the C.C. and the St. Petersburg Committee from Lenin

August 14

Dear Comrades, Having received Comrade Konstantin Sergeyevich’s letter and “statement”, I consider it my duty to reply as follows, with the request that this be read to all members of the St. Petersburg Committee. Of course, the conflict must be examined, according to the Party Rules, by the Central Committee, and I am far from presuming to form my own judgment from here. But in view of the reference to “Lushin’s letter” as a product from abroad, I must have my say. Lushin is one of the filthy renegades from the Majority to the Minority, offended at not being invited to the Third Congress. “Lushin’s letter” was published by him (in print) before that, before the Third Congress, and contained a stupid reproach

* This refers to the publication of the Minutes of the Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. — Ed.

A. V. LUNACHARSKY. AUGUST 1905

to the Majority for lack of decisiveness (!) in the war against the Minority. Signing that letter was a mistake on Comrade Konstantin Sergeyevich’s part, but to hold that mistake against him would be the height of unreason. It is a perfectly pardonable mistake on the part of a man unfamiliar with the “morals” (or rather, immorality) prevailing abroad. Konstantin Sergeyevich himself immediately turned away from that individual Lushin. Knowing Konstantin Sergeyevich first as an excellent, one of the most valuable correspondents, and then having made his personal acquaintance in Geneva, I must speak generally in his favour as a worker, and resolutely against references to “Lushin’s letter” as a charge against Konstantin Sergeyevich. 66

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Written August 14, 1905

Sent from Geneva to St. Petersburg

First published in 1926

in the Lenin Miscellany V

Printed from the manuscript