V. I.

Lenin

256

To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B., ... [1]
Two of our latest documents are to be sent to you in Basle from Brussels
(by Popov) [and from Leipzig ] (by Zagorsky): my Rapport [to the I.S.B. ]
on the elections to the Fourth Duma and “Russian Workers Against
War” [2]

...

strikes and the resolution of the representatives. All this should be
circulated in [the I.S.B. This] is important...

Yours, Lenin

P.S. ... Prepare in a businesslike way . This makes an on all of
them. Say that the whole world measures the strength of
Social-Democracy by three tokens:
1) the number ... of
votants [3] (in Russia, not ; a couple of words against the legalists);
2) the socialist press;
3) socialist deputies. [Should we go by the] legal press?

How many times stronger have we ( Pravda ) been than
Luch [5] throughout 1912 (ten months, January-October)? ( Ad. 3. Begin with the Third Duma) “Der
Anonymus aus dem Vorwärts ” u.s.w. [4]

The worker curia in the Fourth Duma (two words about it) is ours.

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Notes:
[1]
Manuscript badly damaged. Words in square brackets have been inserted
as context suggests.— Ed .

[2]
Lenin’s report, “Elections to the Fourth Duma”, to the International
Socialist Bureau, previously believed to be missing, was published in
Le Peuple No. 325 on November 20, 1912. It was reprinted in 1963
in Correspondance entre Lénine et Camille Huysmans. 1905–1914 ,
Paris.

“ Russian Workers Against War”—evidently the appeal “To All the