V. I.

Lenin

7

To:   G. K. ORJONIKIDZE, S. S. SPANDARYAN AND YELENA STASOVA [1]

Don’t be light-hearted about the campaign of the liquidators abroad. It is a great mistake when people simply
dismiss what goes on abroad with a wave of the hand and
“send it to hell”. The liquidators will cause a lot of confusion if they call their conference with the Bund + the
Caucasian Regional
Committee [2] + the Letts + liquidationist intellectuals. And they will call it! We must fight
stubbornly, seriously and systematically. There must be
a round tour and explanation everywhere of the liquidators’
deception. Reprint the long article in the last issue of
Rabochaya Gazeta [3] as a leaflet. I advise you to print a
number of leaflets immediately (all the important resolutions of
the Conference are a must). With leaflets you will win everything. Be exceptionally careful in setting about
Izvestia . [4]
The paper will be a great pretext for the police. And it is
more important than anything else to hold on until the elections. Remember that there are no replacements.

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Notes:
[1]
This letter is a postscript to a letter written by N. K.
-5 Krupskaya.— Ed.

[2]
Caucasian Regional Committee —factional centre of the
Caucasian Menshevik liquidators. It joined the anti-Party August bloc
organised by Trotsky.

[3]
Rabochaya Gazeta (Workers’ Gazette)—illegal popular organ of
the Bolsheviks, published irregularly in Paris between 1910 and
1912.

Reference is to the article “What Should the People Be Taught
about the Election Campaign?” published in Rabochaya Gazeta
No. 8, March 17 (30), 1912.

[4]
Izvestia (News)—the projected publication did not take place.