LENIN MISCELLANY

[EDITORIAL NOTE FROM SOURCE:] wine. The words cited by Lenin are taken from a couplet (in Russian translation by E. G. Rakhmilovich. Moscow 1918):
"After the rabbi began anew
Our Catholic—the seducer.
Again curses... Every word, Like a pot [of mine]—full."
The opening words and concluding lines of the note "Our Khlestakovs" were written by Lenin. The translation of the communication from "Le Socialiste" was done by N. Krupskaya. The article was published in No. 9 of "Proletarii" from July 26 (August 13), 1905. To the Khlestakovian note of "Iskra," Lenin also refers in the document "Informing the International S.D." (see below, p. 434).

July, before the 26th, 1905. [Geneva.]

As material for informing Russian workers, we translate in full the communication sent to the French socialist newspaper by Iskra:

"The so-called 3rd Congress of the R.S.D.R.P. did not recognize the organizations of the following centers of the Russian movement: Kiev (the number of organized workers exceeds 500 people), Rostov (more than 300), Crimea (1000 workers and sailors of the Black Sea Fleet), Smolensk (200 workers), Vilna (200), Dvinsk (500), Batumi (1000 workers), Tiflis (more than 1000 workers), Guria (widely distributed peasant organization), Kuban Region (eight organizations comprising more than 600 workers, peasants, and Cossacks), Astrakhan (200 workers), Kishinev (more than 200), Kharkov (more than 3000), Poltava (400 organized workers and peasants), Kremenchug (500 workers), as well as Vitebsk, Gomel, Elizavetgrad, Yuzovka, Mariupol, Bakhmut, Romny, Zhitomir, Berdichev, and Lubny.

An equally negative attitude toward the Congress was taken by an enormous majority of organized party members in Petersburg (where the Iskra group organized about 1500 workers, while another faction of the party barely half this number), then in Odessa (750 versus 300), in Baku (400 versus 200), in Kutaisi and Ekaterinoslav (400 versus 100). Both factions are almost equally strong in Riga (each includes 200 to 300 organized workers), in Moscow (about 300 workers each), in Nikolaev (100 to 150), and in Nizhny Novgorod.

The faction that recognized the 3rd Congress predominates: in Tver, Tula, Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Orel, Kursk, and Minsk (in all these cities taken together, the number of organized workers does not exceed 2000–2500).

Besides the above-named organizations, the following organizations of Russia are also affiliated with the Iskra group: the military-revolutionary organization of Poland (more than 1000 organized soldiers), the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Union, and the widely distributed peasant organization of Little Russia.

At the present time it is impossible to establish which side the organizations of the Eastern District stand on: in Kazan, Samara, Saratov, Ufa, Perm, Ekaterinburg, Vyatka, Tashkent, and Siberia; and the total number of organized workers in this district barely exceeds 1,500.

These figures, which are based on reports from party committees, make it possible to assert that the organized forces of the faction that recognized the 3rd Congress are undoubtedly at least twice as small as the forces of the other faction (Iskra)."

The couriers gallop, 40,000 couriers invite the new-Iskra Khlestakovs to govern the party!

Along with recognition of the III Congress and the Central Committee elected at it, the resolution of the Saratov Committee on the report about the III Congress considers it necessary to enter into an agreement also with the Menshevik Organizational Commission. The Saratov organization throughout 1905 was typically swampy, "conciliationist." At the end of 1905, the Saratov Committee sent two delegates from itself: one to the November Menshevik conference in Petersburg, the other—to the Bolshevik conference in Tamperfors, which took place in December 1905.

The document printed below is an editorial afterword written by Lenin to the resolution of the Saratov Committee on the III Congress, published in the "From the Party" section in No. 10 of "Proletarii" from August 2 (July 20), 1905.

Printed: 30,000. Ed.

Lenin Miscellany XVI.