V. I.

Lenin

536

To:   INESSA ARMAND

Dear Friend, I am sending you the promised No. of Volksrecht containing the
resolution of the meeting of protest against postponement of the
congress. [1] If there are any Swiss Lefts in Clarens and Lausanne, it
would be a good thing to translate this resolution and get them to protest
too.

Return
Kamenev [2] directly to me when you have read it, as I have not read it
yet.

I am sending you the catalogues for 2 days: look through them and write
out (the titles and numbers) what is of interest to you . I shall
be able to send you one book at a time from this library. I also have the
big main catalogue: I can send you this too if you are interested and if it
is not available at the local public library.

All the best, Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
The newspaper Volksrecht No. 5 for January 6, 1917, carried an
article on the party meeting held in the Zurich People’s House on
January 5. One point in the adopted resolution ex pressed a protest against
“the agitation being carried on behind the scenes” for postponing the
party congress.

[2]
This probably refers to L. B. Kamenev’s pamphlet The Downfall of the International .