V. I. Lenin

The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.

APRIL 12–27 (APRIL 25–MAY 10), 1905

SPEECH ON THE CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE REPORT CONCERNING THE KAZAN COMMITTEE’S
REPRESENTATION AT THE =
CONGRESS {2}

APRIL 13 (26)

References are being made to a statement of mine. {1}

The Kazan man, who has arrived, said that he may possibly have been
elected. He should be invited as a member of the committee. I find the end of the Credentials Committee’s resolution strange
and propose its correction.

| First published in 1937 in the book Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P. Protokoly (The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Proceedings) | |
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Notes:
{1}
See p. 15O of this volume.— Ed .

{2}
No Kazan Committee delegate attended the Congress until the eighteenth
sitting, in view of the fact that the Organising Committee had been unable
to contact the Kazan Committee in good time. V. V. Adoratsky, a member of
the Kazan Committee, was abroad at the time. To ensure the attendance of
the Kazan organisation, Lenin wrote to the Credentials Committee,
suggesting that Adoratsky should be invited to attend the Congress with
voice but no vote as a member of the Kazan Committee. The Credentials
Committee proposed that Adoratsky should be invited “simply as a member of
the Party”, and it is this formula that Lenin found strange.

The Congress, by a majority, with two against, decided to invite
Adoratsky “as a member of the committee”. It proved to be impossible to
inform Adoratsky of this decision, and he did not attend the Congress. Only
by the eighteenth sitting did a delegate from the Kazan Committee
arrive. He was I. A. Sammer (Savich), who was allowed voice but no vote.

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