V. I.

Lenin

476

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

The S.R.s should be answered with a refusal . “We can not
advise unity.” Have they given an address for a reply? (Be sure to leave a
copy.)

I am writing to Alexander, but, of course, not the way you have
“modified” our arrangement, but the way it was:
(1) the old agreement is cancelled; (2) the Editorial Board of the
C.O. edits in agreement , from issue to issue, with the publishers ; (3) publication in
Berne. [1]

You write the letter to the comrades concerning the conference of

25–29.1V [3] —you have more material (by the way, please send me our
resolution, the joint one with Radek which he read out at the plenary
meeting: I need it badly).

Use the same letter perhaps to make a draft appeal for the French (as
discussed with Inessa). I can’t get it right.

Did Meyer & Co. propose voting the
Leitsätze [2] at the Erweiterten Kommission ? [4]

I shall go to Lausanne and Geneva to lecture but not on the
conference, so this won’t interfere with you. [5]

I agree to a No. of the C.O. on the conference. [6] Send me distribution of the articles. A paragraph on
Martov’s deceit of the International must go in.

I did not receive Rybalka.

Salut, Lenin

N.B. ||

P.S. Natanson told me that they are considering a rapprochement with
those of their “defencists” who say: first revolution, then defence. Ask him (in your reply) whether he would care to inform us about the results of their talks .