V. I. Lenin

From The Central Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)

To Comrades Kamenev, Zinoviev, Ryazanov and Larin

Once before, the Central Committee delivered an ultima—turn
to the leading exponents of your policy (Kamenev and Zinoviev),
demanding complete subordination to the Central Committee’s
line and decisions, and renunciation of efforts to sabotage its
work and of all subversive activity. [See pp. Ultimatum to the Majority inthis volume. —Transcriber]

By leaving the Central Committee, but remaining in the Party,
the exponents of your policy undertook to abide by Central
Committee decisions. Actually, however, you have not confined
yourselves to criticism within the Party, but have brought
confusion into the ranks of the fighters- in an uprising which
is still going on, and continue, in violation of Party discipline, to frustrate Central Committee decisions and hamper
its work outside the Party, in the Soviets, the municipal
bodies, the trade unions, etc.

In view of this, the Central Committee is forced to restate its
ultimatum and to request that you immediately pledge yourselves
in writing either to abide by Central Committee decisions and to
conduct its policy in all your statements, or to withdraw from
all Party activity in public and resign from all responsible
posts in the working-class movement until the next Party
congress.

Refusal to pledge yourselves to either course will make it
imperative for the Central Committee to consider the question of
your immediate expulsion from the Party.