TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE RSDLP

The editorial board of “Proletariy,” in light of the circulation among overseas social-democratic groups of a printed leaflet signed “Sasha” (the leaflet is attached here), which contains accusations against the editorial board of “Proletariy”202—furthermore, given that certain opponents of “Proletariy,” both from among the “excluded” following the recent conference of the Executive Committee of the Bolshevik Center—and from among the Mensheviks—are using this leaflet to circulate among their groups a “sensational” “affair” that in no way ought to be handled or debated by any local party group—

requests that the Central Committee of the RSDLP take up the case of the “Sasha” accusations, examine these charges on their merits, and issue an official ruling through the highest body of the party.

Written on September 17, 1909,
in Paris (local time)

First published in 1933. Printed from manuscript

in the Lenin Collection, Volume XXV