Comrade Zinoviev!
I have read the draft of the theses and have no objections.
We should supplement and, in part, revise the paragraph on the history of Bolshevism. It is incorrect to state that the split occurred only in 1910. We must point out that the formal splits with the Mensheviks—those that took place in the spring of 1905 and in January 1912—were followed by semi‑unifications and full unifications in 1906 and 1907, then again in 1910—not merely as a result of the vicissitudes of the struggle, but also under the pressure of the rank and file, who demanded that their own experience be put to the test through practical trials.126
I believe it is necessary to address this matter more precisely and in greater detail, within the confines of a single page.
6/XII.
Lenin
Written in December 1921.
First published in 1945, in Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXXV.

Printed from a typewritten copy.