Date: 1917
Source: ru:PSS/v50

A few days after the Inter-District Conference, "Pravda" (No. 60 for 1947, May 18 (34)) published the text of Comrade Lenin's proposals (C.C. of the Party) and the resolution adopted by the conference, with the following note from the editors: "The unification of all genuine internationalists is, in our view, an urgent matter. Let the comrade workers express their opinion as soon as possible. Let them say which path leads closer and more surely to the goal: the one proposed by the Central Committee of our party or another."
Below we print all three documents written by Comrade Lenin: I - a record of Comrade Trotsky's first speech; II - the text of Comrade Lenin's proposal; III - a record of Comrade Trotsky's reply.
At the Inter-District Conference, in addition to Comrade Lenin, Comrades G. Zinoviev and L. Kamenev were present from our party.

8.
LENIN AT THE INTER-DISTRICT CONFERENCE.
May 1917
I.
Trotsky "roll call"
— before the all-Party Congress or Conference — not to "dissolve,"
"not to lose."
1) pacifism — ag[ain]st civil w[ar].
(2) defeat — a lesser evil.
(3) in the national-democratic, and not int[ernational]-prol[etarian] plane;
dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry (b[ourgeoi]s), and not (prol[etarian]-
soc[ialist]).
C[onstru]ct[ion] of the I[nternational].
Not by way of automatic entry, — but through the All-Russian

Cong[ress], prepared by both B[olshevi]ks and us and org[aniza]tions on the ground and Me[nshevi]ks-I[nterna]t[ionalists].
We do not want to push the Me[nshevi]ks-I[nterna]t[ionalists] to the right.
Creation of an Org[aniza]t[ional] Bureau (both the C.C. and the nationals and us etc.)
— to prepare a broad Party Cong[ress] and Con[ference] of I[nterna]t[ional]ists.
The closest connection with the P.C. and Me[nshevi]ks-I[nterna]t[ionalists].
II.
Unification is desirable immediately.
The Central Committee of the RSDLP will be proposed to immediately include in the composition of both newspapers (the current "Pravda," which will be transformed into an all-Russian popular newspaper,
and the C.O., which will be created in the near future) one
representative from the Inter-District organization.
The Central Committee will be proposed to create a special organizational commission for the convocation (in 1½
months) of a Party Congress. The Inter-District Conference will receive the right to send two of its delegates to this commission.
If the Me[nshevi]ks, supporters of Martov, break with the "defensists,"
the inclusion of their delegates in the named commission is desirable
and necessary.
Freedom of discussion on contentious issues is ensured by the publication of discussion leaflets in ["Pravda"] "Priboi" and free discussion in the reviving journal "Prosveshchenie"
("Kommunist").
A draft, read by N. Lenin on behalf of himself personally and several members of the C.C. (10/V 1917) *).
*) This postscript,* like the entire document, is written in Lenin's hand. Ed.

LENIN AT THE INTER-DISTRICT CONFERENCE
III.
Trotsky: (who took the floor out of turn immediately after me...)
I agree with the resolutions entirely,— but at the same time, I agree insofar as Russian B[olshevi]sm has become internationalized.
The Bolsheviks have de-Bolshevized—and I cannot call myself a B[olshevi]k.
Their resolutions can (and should) be taken as the basis of the qualification.
But the recognition of B[olshevi]sm cannot be demanded from us.
The Bureau — (Central] C[ommittee] - f - .........) is acceptable.
Participation in the newspaper — this proposal is "less convincing."
"It won't pass from this angle."
Agreement of individual writers:
"from another angle, from the creation of your newspaper"...
Cooperation (on both sides) is very desirable...
(Discussion bodies are insignificant)...
The old Factional name is undesirable...
They want internationals in the "Org[aniza]t[ional] Bureau."

The draft resolution printed below was approved by the Central Committee of the R.S.-D.R.P. (Bolsheviks) and, as a resolution of the C.C., was published in the Moscow "Social-Democrat" (No. 64 of May 25 - June 7); in "Pravda" this resolution, as a "resolution of the Central Committee," is not present, it is published in No. 74 of "Pravda," of June 2 (45) as a draft resolution of the Organizational Bureau on the convocation of a conference of factory committees.
From May 30 (June 12) to June 3 (16), 1917, a conference of factory committees took place in Petrograd, the majority of which turned out to be standing on the point of view of our
party.
In the Organizational
Bureau for the convocation of the conference, the leading role in the same way belonged to the Bolsheviks.
The Organizational Bureau nominated Comrade Zinoviev as the rapporteur on the central question of the agenda ("The state
of industry, control of production and regulation of the course
of work in the city of Petrograd").
The resolution on economic measures to combat disruption submitted on behalf of the Organizational Bureau on the report of Comrade Zinoviev
was precisely the draft of Vladimir Ilyich approved by the Central Committee of the party (the Organizational Bureau made minor
changes to the text of Vladimir Ilyich).
This resolution gathered an overwhelming majority of votes: 290 out of 424.
The remaining resolutions received an insignificant minority: B. Avilov's (from the internationalists-New-Lifers) — 43 votes, Cherevanin's and Dalin's (from the Mensheviks) — 42, the fourth resolution, close to the resolutions of the Organizational Bureau,—45.
The resolution adopted by the conference as a basis was then transferred
for final processing to the commission (Zinoviev, Ryazanov, Glebov, Derbyshev, Naumov, Zhukov, Fedorov; Cherevanin —
did not appear at the meeting of the Commission); the text of the resolution approved by the commission was adopted by the conference at the final
meeting on June 3 (16) — by 297 votes against 24 with 44 abstentions (see the text of the resolution in "Pravda" No. 73 of June 4 (17),
1947). In the notes to the draft of Vladimir Ilyich published by us, we indicate those amendments that were made
to the original text, firstly, by the Organizational
Bureau, and secondly, by the commission.
On the reverse side of the last sheet of the manuscript (all sheets are nine) there is a conspectus (without a title) written by Vladimir Ilyich on the topic subsequently developed in the resolution.
Although chronologically the conspectus precedes the resolution, we
print it after the resolution.
It should be noted that Vladimir Ilyich took part in the debates that unfolded at the conference on the report of
Comrade Zinoviev, and in his speech (May 31 - June 13) focused