[17 February 1911. Paris.]¹
Dear Al[exey]!
We are sending the latest items:
1) a statement (copy) by Igor, submitted by him today to the Z.B.C.C.*
2) a resolution by the “group” of San Remo (see Plekhanov’s speech “with
the household members”).²
Today Liber³ declared in the Z.B.C.C.,⁴ that Adrianov is located
near Moscow and that, according to his, Liber’s, information, the
question is being discussed whether to convene the C.C. in Russia or abroad.
* return immediately upon reading (and after making a copy).

V. I. LENIN TO A. I. RYKOV

In our opinion, it is necessary to send Mikh[ail]
M[ironovi]ch⁶ to the Samov[ars]³ (tomorrow we shall try to send him: i.e., so that
he departs for your place tomorrow. I spoke with him today, and he agrees).
Going to Russia now is inconvenient for him, but this
inconvenience is minor; he agrees to go to Russia as well. Do
this: send him immediately with two assignments: (1) to send Lyubich⁷ abroad at once;
(2) to see the Samov[ars], to persuade
them to schedule [the meeting] abroad and to depart.
It is unreasonable, absurd, wildly risky to court exposure, when Igor,
in the official paper sent to you herewith, expresses his consent to [meeting] abroad and even promises to deliver abroad
not only Adr[iano]v but the “Lond[on] cand[idate]s”⁸ (i.e.,
Roman + Adr[iano]v, two people altogether:
from this, the absolute necessity of Lyubich is clear, for otherwise our troika does not yield
a majority).
Tomorrow we are sending theses concerning the declaration on the liq[uidato]rs
and the otz[ov]ists.⁹
I shake your hand.
Your Lenin
[Postscript by G. Zinoviev.]
Today Liber also threatened to “place an arrest” on our
30 thousand (for the legal publishing house). To Leve¹⁰ and their group, we
offered 5–6 pages for the professional-cooperative
section. — One request of you: for Christ’s sake, do not leave
yourself until it becomes clear what is what. Write if there is anything
new.
Grigory
If Karsky¹¹ has not yet returned the foreign passport (Persian) sent to him from here, leave it there for Warsky.
We are sending the letter to Kautsky and the other holders tomorrow.¹²

¹ Justification of the date: the statement by Igor (B. Gorev) (see Works, vol. XV,
pp. 683–684) “To the Central Committee Bureau Abroad,” which is mentioned in the letter,
“submitted today,” is dated 17 February 1911 (see p. 16).
² “Resolutions adopted by the group in San Remo,” see the supplement to
No. 24 of “Golos Sotsial-Demokrata.”

Liber, M. I. (Goldman, Ber) — one of the leaders of the Bund; at the London
Congress of the R.S.D.L.P., he was elected a member of the C.C. from the Bund; in 1908–1911,
he was a member of the Central Committee Bureau Abroad (for details, see Works, vol. XV, p. 699).

LKPNSKY COLLECTION

In late 1910 – early 1911, the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee consisted of: from the Bolsheviks, N. A. Semashko (Aleksandrov); from the Poles, Tyszko; from the Mensheviks, B. I. Gorev-Goldman; from the Bundists, M. I. Goldmann (Liber); and from the Latvians, J. Elias (Schwarz) (for details, see Works, Vol. XIV, p. 540, note 146).

‘Samovars’ — V. P. Nogin and Lindov (Leiteizen), members of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee, who were at that time in Tula.

® ‘Mikhail Mironovich’ — Mandelstam, N. N.; at that time he was in Leipzig.

7 ‘Liubich’ — Sammer, I. A. (see Works, Vol. VIII, p. 543).

8 According to the CC Rules, adopted at the January Plenum of the CC of the R.S.D.L.P. in 1910, candidates to the CC elected by the London Congress, ‘who are carrying out some party work in Russia’, could be invited to the work of the CC Plenum; as a candidate, the Mensheviks put forward Roman (K. M. Ermolaev), who, for a year and a half, together with other liquidators, wrecked the work of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee.

9 The original text of the theses (‘declaration’) is not in the archives of the Lenin Institute; a document close in content may be the one given in the appendix, p. 17, ‘Draft of a Joint Statement’, written by the hand of G. Zinoviev.

10 ‘Leva’ — Vladimirov, M. K. In the years of reaction he was a conciliator (see about him Works, Vol. XIV, pp. 570–571). The discussion is probably about the participation of Bolshevik conciliators in the Bolshevik journal ‘Mysl’ in the section ‘Social and Economic Life’, where notes on the life of trade unions and on questions of the cooperative movement were placed (see Works, Vol. XV, pp. 612–613, note 16).

11 ‘Karsky’ — Markhlevsky, Yu. Yu. (see Works, Vol. XIV, pp. 592–593).

12 ‘Holders’ — Kautsky, Mehring and Zetkin (see Works, Vol. XIV, pp. 533–536, note 139).