11/III 1916  
Dear A.! A big greeting from me too. I'm waiting for long letters from you. Concerning *Kommunist*  
[they took] a very mean position in No. 2 of their newspaper (if you don't have it, we'll send it, and let N. I. translate it for you)  
3. It will inevitably be necessary to expose them: they are again vacillating, as in Brussels  
 4. And since that is so,  
*Kommunist* loses its meaning anyway (for it is impossible to give them a place there; nor can we print their letter of refusal).  
Therefore, *Kommunist* must inevitably be discontinued.  
So we shall publish (we have the money)  
“*Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata*”  
5. Bear this in mind (it is still too early to speak about this)  
in talks with the Stockholm people.  
In a few days I will write in more detail.  
“Plan” for peace with Yuri and Evgenia Bogdanovna  
— to discontinue *Kommunist*.  
— to publish “*Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata*” under the editorship of  
*Sotsial-Demokrat*, and invite them as contributors.  
If they want to give,  
they will remain.  
Greetings! Yours, Lenin  

Dear friend, we received your telegram from Bern. We send greetings! It’s splendid  
that you managed to survive. We are waiting for letters from you. For the time being we are living in Zurich.  
Our address: Ulianoff, bei Kammerer, Schuhladen, Spiegelgasse. 12. Zurich. I.  
We think we’ll stay here about a month. What is going on with us, you know from the  
last letter to Nik. Iv. — about the conference, etc. In England the outrages are desperate. Dad was forced to leave London; in France  
the opposition is growing; the same thing Parvus writes about Germany in his “Glocke”...  
However, all this you will learn from the Stockholm people...  
in the legal newspapers. In general, we thirst to learn everything in detail about Russia,  
don’t be sparing, write. Write about the collegium, whether it has remained, who it consists of,  
how it works, etc.  
Well, once again a huge greeting  
N. Krupskaya  

of the Soviet state; wife and comrade-in-arms of V. I. Lenin.  
After the  
congress  
of the R.S.D.L.P. — secretary of the editorial board of the Bolshevik newspapers *Vperyod* and *Proletary*. While working abroad, she conducted an extensive  
correspondence with Party organisations in Russia. During the years of the world imperialist  
war she took an active part in the work of  
the Bolshevik sections abroad, was secretary of their Committee (Committee of Foreign Organisations).  
The beginning of the document published here is written beneath the text of N. K. Krupskaya’s letter (see below).  
by the editorial board of the newspaper *Sotsial-Demokrat* jointly with  
G. L. Pyatakov and  
E. B. Bosh, who financed its publication. The editorial board of the journal also included  
N. I. Bukharin. K. Radek from the Polish  
Left Social-Democrats was drawn into active participation in *Kommunist*.  
Only one (double) number of the journal appeared, in September 1915.  
Already in the course of preparing No. 1–2 of the journal *Kommunist*,  
differences emerged between the editorial board of *Sotsial-Demokrat* and  
Bukharin, Pyatakov and Bosh, which became aggravated after the publication of that issue of the journal.  
At the same time Radek turned to the right and took the path of intrigue against the Bolshe­viks. Considering it necessary to cease publication of the journal, V. I. Lenin  
in April 1916 wrote the “Draft Resolution of the Central Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. on the Termination  
of the Publication of the Journal *Kommunist*” (see V. I. Lenin, Collected Works,  
Vol. 27, pp. 279–281). Publication of *Kommunist* was discontinued.  
published in January 1916. It printed the “Resolutions of the Meeting of the Editorial Board  
Held on 1–2 June 1915”, in which  
vacillations and a conciliatory line towards the Mensheviks on the part of K. B. Radek and his supporters  
were manifested. V. I. Lenin criticises these resolutions in the “Letter of the Committee of Foreign Organisations to the Sections of the R.S.D.L.P.”  
(see V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 27, pp. 275–278).  
*Gazeta Robotnicza* (*Workers’ Newspaper*) — illegal organ of the Warsaw Committee of the Social-Democracy  
of Poland and  
Lithuania; published from May to October 1906, 14 numbers came out, publication was discontinued.  
After the split in 1912 Polish Social-Democracy saw the emergence of two  
Warsaw Committees and the publication of two organs under the title *Gazeta Robotnicza*:  
one — by supporters of the Central Board in  
Warsaw (July 1911–July 1913), the other — by the opposition Warsaw Committee  
in Krakow (July 1911–February 1916).  
N. I. — Bukharin. He had been a member of the Bolshevik Party since 1906.  
In 1911 he emigrated abroad. In 1915 he collaborated on the journal  
*Kommunist*, taking non-Marxist positions on the questions of the state,  
the dictatorship of the proletariat, the right of nations to self-determination, etc.  
at the Brussels “unity” conference of 16–18 July 1914  
for the resolution proposed on behalf of the International Socialist  
Bureau by K. Kautsky. The resolution asserted that there were no essential differences in Russian Social-  
Democracy impeding unity.  
* Word in brackets written by V. I. Lenin.  
collection.  
*Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata* was published under the direct  
guidance of V. I. Lenin. Only two numbers appeared: No. 1 in October and  
No. 2 in December 1916. Material for a third number was prepared, but publication was not carried out  
owing to lack of funds.  
G. L. Pyatakov — had been a member of the Bolshevik Party since 1910. From 1914 to 1917 — a political émigré. In 1915–1917  
he came out against V. I. Lenin on the question of the right of nations to self-determination.  
E. B. Bosh — a Party member since 1901. During the years of the world imperialist war she shared the anti-Leninist views of Bukharin and Pyatakov  
on the national question.