V. I.

Lenin

222

To:   HIS SISTER ANNA

Anna Ilyinichna Yelizarova, Ugodnikovskaya Street, 26, Saratov

I have been sitting at home lately working on a translation [1] and have seen little of what is going on in Paris.
Among our people here, by the way, there is more bickering
and abuse of each other than there has been for a long time—
there probably never has been so much before. All the groups
and sub-groups have joined forces against the last conference and those who organised it, so that matters even went
as far as fisticuffs at meetings here. [2]

In short, there is so little here that is interesting or even
pleasant that it’s not worth writing.

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Notes:
[1]
It is not known which translation Lenin refers to.— Ed .

[2]
After all the attempts of the liquidators, Trotskyites and
conciliators to prevent the Prague Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. had
been defeated, they launched a savage campaign against the
decisions of the conference in order to discredit them.

The Sixth (Prague) All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P.
was convened by the Bolsheviks; it was held from January 18
to January 30,1912; it expelled the Menshevik liquidators from the
Party and strengthened the Party as a nation-wide organisation;
the conference laid down the political line and tactics of the Party
in the new period of revolutionary upsurge, and elected the. Central
Committee. A Russian Bureau of the C.C. was set up to guide the
work in Russia.