M. S. ZAKS-GLADNEV
For Iv. Iv.
[April 5, 1913. Krakow.]

Dear comrades! Many thanks for the detailed letter with very valuable information. Write more and give us connections with the districts. That the liquidators are meeting the rapprochement of Party Mensheviks with the Party “with hostility” — this is very important*.

Resolutions on this must be adopted district by district. This fact proves for the thousandth time that the liquidators are an element definitively outside the Party and anti-Party, that unity is possible only against them (against *Luch*), and not at all with *them*. You are, in my opinion, entirely right to attach great significance to this fact. It is impossible to speak of unity with the liquidators: one cannot unite the Party with the destroyers of the Party. It seems to me that the resolution of the February meeting of 1913 on unity from below should be hectographed (if there are few copies), supplemented with the resolution against *Luch* with a precise list of the 5 points.²

Further, I fully share your opinion on the importance of the campaign against the Seven and on workers’ initiative in this matter. The Seven are wavering, near-Party, but barely Party people. One can enter into agreements with them inside the Duma in order to guide them and pull them along, but to gloss over their liquidatorism, their spinelessness and lack of principle would be a crime.

The campaign against the Seven must be supported and developed. Now, when the liquidatorist *Luch* is expanding (obviously with liberal money, for it runs a loss of 1,000 rubles a month and has a total circulation of only 12,000), we must redouble tenfold the campaign for assistance to the six worker deputies, for subscriptions to *Pravda*, for the expansion of *Pravda*. The struggle for *Pravda* must be waged directly factory by factory, demanding that more copies be subscribed, winning every factory away from *Luch*, and creating competition between factories over the number of subscribers to *Pravda* . The victory of the Party principle is the victory of *Pravda*, and vice versa. Such a campaign must be launched: to raise *Pravda* from 30,000 to 50–60,000, and the number of subscribers from 5,000 to 20,000, and to proceed steadily along this line. Then we shall expand and improve *Pravda*.

Your remark about the absence of intellectuals is very true. There will be none. *Pravda* and the illegal literature will keep them busy. You must issue at least hectographed resolutions and leaflets until the technical side is established. A weekly edition of 30–60 copies of hectographed resolutions of the Petersburg Committee in the form of directives is essential; we could always correspond with you about such resolutions. Think about this. It will strengthen illegal work, reduce the number of victims, generalise propaganda, etc.

The resolution of the Petersburg Committee in favour of the Six and against the Seven is excellent. Has it really not even been hectographed?³ This is absolutely necessary. Precisely such campaigns are what is needed. We shall try to send articles for the *Izvestia*. Inform us of the deadlines. Let us know what the dimensions of the *Izvestia* are and the length of the articles.⁴

Lenin

* The collaboration of Plekhanov and Dnievitsky in *Pravda* evoked a number of statements in *Luch* against them and *Pravda*.
In No. 56 of *Pravda*, March 21 (8), 1913, an article by Plekhanov “On the Question of the Split in the Social-Democratic Fraction of the Fourth State Duma” was published. In reply, *Luch* (No. 65, April 1 (March 19)) printed an article by Vano, “A Regrettable Occurrence.”
In connection with the same article by Plekhanov, *Luch* (No. 59, March 25 (12)) published “A Letter from the Workers to G. V. Plekhanov” and then a number of resolutions against his appearance in *Pravda*.

² See the resolution “On the Attitude to Liquidatorism and on Unity” in the collection *VKP(b) in Resolutions and Decisions of Congresses, Conferences and Plenums of the Central Committee*, 1932 ed., p. 223.

³ At a meeting of the Petersburg Committee (February) a resolution was adopted which greeted the 6 worker deputies and which “finds their political line correct”; the resolution pointed out “the non-Party character of the action of the 7 deputies who support the liquidatorist *Luch*” (see *Sotsial-Demokrat* No. 31, June 28 (15), 1913). This resolution, apparently, was not issued as a leaflet by the PC.

⁴ The PC at the February meeting decided to publish *Izvestia of the PC of the R.S.D.L.P.*; the contents of the first issue were planned, but the publication could not be realised.