V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v13;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — M. A. LARIN
IN STOCKHOLM.
For Yu. Larin.
13/III 1916. [Zurich.]

Dear Comrade,
Unfortunately, both the composition of the contributors and the indefinite character of the symposium, and the restrictive conditions for the contributors, and the unknown identity of some of them—all this compels me to decline participation.¹

With communist greetings,
Lenin

Lenin’s letter is a reply to Yu. Larin’s proposal that he take part in a symposium devoted to a criticism of defencism and a substantiation of the Zimmerwald platform. The following were invited to contribute from abroad: P. Axelrod, A. Lunacharsky, L. Martov, A. Martynov, N. Ryazanov, L. Trotsky and V. Chernov; N. Sukhanov was to select contributors in Russia. The conditions for contributors stipulated “that the articles in this symposium should contain no mutual attacks by the contributors on one another”. This symposium was never published.