Dear Comrade Albert!

I should like to have a conversation with you concerning the resolution of the conference on the nationals**.

You discern in it "diplomacy" — this is a major error.

* The manuscript of the document is partially damaged. Here and below several words remain undeciphered. Ed.

** This concerns the resolution of the Cracow conference "On 'National' Social-Democratic Organizations" (see V. I. Lenin. Works, 5th ed., vol. 22, pp. 267-269). Ed.

What do you see as diplomacy in it?

First, in the fact that we hurl thunderbolts against the Main Administration of the P.S.D., — "and yet all the information comes from members of the opposition."

This is grossly untrue!

That Tyshka in the Main Administration provokes opposition and discontent among the P.S.D. — we have known this for years. Everyone who has worked with the Main Administration knows this.

The development of this opposition since 1910 has been in plain sight.

In the spring of 1912 Tyshka and Co. dissolve the Warsaw committee, declaring it dependent on the Okhrana, and create "their own."

In the autumn elections occur. And what happens? All the workers who are electors in Warsaw, belonging to the S.D., end up on the side of the opposition!

I have verified this fact.

The names of the electors — Zalevsky and Bronovsky. Malinovsky saw them and himself verified the fact.

Well then, is this not proof??

And subsequently the opposition has on its side both the émigré organization abroad and Łódź.

The collapse of Tyshka's diplomacy has been mounting for a long time. It is inevitable. And already the January Conference of 1912 (which did not at all touch upon the question of Tyshka's split [= Main Administration] with the opposition) indicated the principled assessment of this course of events.

A federation of the worst type is collapsing.160

A return to the old (1907-1911) is impossible.

This must be understood.

And in Austria there was a similar period: a separate Central Committee for the nationals; no separate Central Committee for the Germans.

In Austria this did not hold: hence the road leads either toward complete federation or toward complete unity.

And our semi-federation (1907-1911) is untenable: one must apply all efforts so that party workers understand this fully.

We wish to move toward complete unity — from below and on the national question.

It is possible. It existed and exists in the Caucasus (4 nations). It existed in 1907 and in Riga (Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians).