V. I.

Lenin

454

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Liebe Freunde, Please send me as quickly as you can Tagwacht containing
Radek’s articles on Gorter and two articles about the Australian
labour movement. I am also waiting for the proof-sheets
(1) of my articles in the C.O. and (2) of the German theses (do not print them until you receive my
reply: I am considering another little amendment). [1]

I am also waiting for your article for the C.O. and an exact plan of
the issue.

Please give my address to Radek and ask him from me to send me the
promised cutting from Vorwärts of 12.I.1916 (Rühle’s article on the split and the editors’ reply). I am lecturing here on
Wednesday, so I have very little time. There is tongue-wagging here about
the position of the “5 secretaries” [2] being desperate (Russia against them) and their only hope is that Chkheidze
will lift his voice from the “rostrum”, crying: for Zimmerwald!!

Beste Grüβe!

Ihr Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
This refers to the theses “The Socialist Revolution and the Right of
Nations to Self-Determination” (see present edition, Vol. 22,
pp. 143–56).— Ed .

[2]

* This refers to the Secretariat Abroad of the Mensheviks’
O. C.— Ed .