V. I.

Lenin

484

To:   THE ORGANISING BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.)

Orgbureau

I propose either reprimanding the signatories to this paper (their names, 32 persons, can be learned from their
previous paper) [1] or reproving them for their gossip about the policy of the
C.C., R.C.P., which is a violation of discipline and an
obstacle to organised and harmonious work; — for, without indicating anything concrete, these
people are wasting valuable time and diverting attention
from speediest departure to the Ukraine for work there.

The C.C. calls on them to cease their gossip and project-mongering and get down to work immediately,
strictly carrying out the policy and instructions of the C.C.,
R.C.P.

Lenin

P.S. The signatories must be kept under supervision and
distributed separately among business-like personnel.
Otherwise there will be squabbling, and not work.

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Notes:
[1]
In the autumn of 1919 a group of “federalists”, headed by G.
Lapchinsky, P. Popov and Y. Lander, was formed in the Communist
Party of the Ukraine. The group took a bourgeois nationalist
stand and started factional splitting activities. On December 13,
1919, the federalists called a meeting of 32 of their supporters,
at which they declared against the policy of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
towards the Ukraine. Popov and Lander signed a statement on
behalf of 32 Ukrainian Party functionaries criticising the
composition of the Bureau of the C.C., C.P.(B.) of the Ukraine and
its methods of work, and protesting against Party and administrative functionaries for the Ukraine being mobilised from Russian
gubernias.

On December 18, 1919, the Orgbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
examined the declaration of the Ukrainian Party functionaries
and decided “to reprimand them because, instead of doing
positive work in accordance with the directive of the All-Ukraine
Revolutionary Committee and the Bureau of the C.C., C.P.(B.) of
the Ukraine, they are wasting time and energy in gossip and irresponsible political chicanery, which is a violation of Party
discipline....”