V. I.

Lenin

FOREWORD TO G. ZINOVIEV’S ARTICLE “ON THE NUMERICAL COMPOSITION OF OUR PARTY”

Comrade Zinoviev has sent me this article, with the request that I send it on to the Moscow press. I fulfil his
request with great pleasure. The article, in my opinion,
deserves to be reprinted in all the newspapers. All Party
comrades ought to read it, and should everywhere, following the example of Petrograd, start simultaneously both
purging the Party of “hangers-on” and intensively recruiting to the Party all the best elements among the mass of
workers and peasants.

N. Lenin

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