V. I.

Lenin

a) That the Line of joint action with the workers of the
Second International proposed by a number of Communist Parties of the
Communist International and introduced by Zinoviev, Radek and Bukharin be
approved. The latter to be directed within two days to set forth this line
clearly in a draft resolution to be circulated among the members of the
Politbureau.

b) That Comrade Bukharin be directed to write and show the
Politbureau an article summing up the experience of the R,C.P. in the
Bolsheviks’ struggle against the Mensheviks and the blocs between them. [1]

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Notes:
[1]
This draft was written in connection with the discussion by the
Politbureau on December 1, 1921, of the question of the tactics of a united
workers’ front. Lenin’s proposals were adopted. They formed the basis of
the Comintern Executive’s theses “On the United Workers’ Front and the
Attitude to the Workers Belonging to the II, II/2 and Amsterdam
Internationals, as Well as the Workers Who Support the Anarcho-Syndicalist
Organisations”. Lenin’s remarks on the theses (see p. 368 of this volume)
were also taken into consideration. The theses were published in the
journal The Communist International No. 20 for 1921. The
Eleventh All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B.) (December 19-21, 1921) subscribed to these theses. They were discussed and endorsed by
the first enlarged plenary meeting of the Comintern Executive (February
21-March 4, 1922) and by the Fourth Congress of the
Comintern.

Lenin’s “Notes on the History of the R.C.P.” (see present edition, Vol. 36, pp. 552-54) were made in connection with the
proposal that Bukharin should write an article summing up the experience of
the R.C.P.(B.)