LEPIPLE. --- LETTERS TO A. SHLYAPNIKOV.

8) Sort of.
4) Maslov,
II. P. — Menshevik-defencist.
5) Smirnov, E. (E. Gurevich) — journalist, Menshevik-defencist.
®) Sokolov, II, D. — a well-known attorney-at-law, until 1917
sided with the Bolsheviks.
7) Meshkovsky — II.
P.
Goldeliber, an old Bolshevik, from the beginning of the war — a defencist, died in 19*22 as a communist.
8) Nikitin
A.
M. — Social Democrat Menshevik, future member of the Provisional
Government.
9) On the eve of the war, at the suggestion of the International Socialist
Bureau, a meeting of representatives of all trends of the RSDLP
took place in Brussels. This meeting was convened by the International Bureau
in order to reconcile all trends. At this meeting, a factual
unification of all groups against the Bolsheviks occurred, who, in the person of their
representatives, Comrades Inessa Armand and Comrade Popov, spoke out, according to the instructions of the Central Committee, decisively against any
unification with the groups of liquidators, Vperedists, etc. The participants
of this unification are called here by Vladimir Ilyich the Brussels bloc.
10) Nikolai Vasilyevich — N. V. Kuznetsov — participant in the London
Congress of the party, then an émigré, in 1910-1914 — a member of the Paris
group of Bolsheviks, from the beginning of the war he volunteered in the ranks of the French
Army, soon killed.
Antonov — also
Svyagin, also Popov, real surname Kazakov — an old Bolshevik, after the revolution of 1905 he went
to hard labor in the case of the military organization of the Bolsheviks, escaped, was a member
of the Bolshevik group in Paris, an employee of Bolshevik
newspapers, in particular, "Pravda", in 1914 he volunteered for the Front and was
killed at the very beginning of the war.
11) "Golos" — a Parisian internationalist newspaper of a centrist
direction; Trotsky, Martov, Lozovsky, and others took the closest part in it. In January 1915, "Golos" was closed by the French
government, and "Nashe Slovo" replaced it.
12) Immediately after the declaration of war, the Petrograd Committee issued a leaflet, where in very
sharp words it was stated the Petrograd Committee's understanding of the war of 1914 as anti-
people's; it ended with a slogan addressed to the tsarist government: by
the throat, knee to the chest.
13) Chirkin — a prominent worker-Menshevik, now a communist.
14) Bulkin — a worker-Menshevik, a staunch defencist at that time.
15) The Basel Resolution — a resolution adopted at the congress of the Second
International in Basel in 1912 in connection with the impending pan-European
war.
16) The indication refers to Vladimir Ilyich's article in No. 33 of "Social-
Democrat" — "The Position and Tasks of the Socialist International,"

Dear friend!
I have read Vandervelde's answer and attach my thoughts on
this answer 1).
It would be extremely desirable that in the event of the convocation of the Duma
(is it true that it is being convened in a month?)
our Faction already выступила without a bloc and stated a consistent
point of view. Answer immediately 1) will the Duma be convened;
2) are your relations with the Duma Faction] good and how many
days does this require.
21/X — 1914.
I am continuing the interrupted letter. My criticism of the answer is, of course, a private matter, intended exclusively for
friends in order to establish complete mutual understanding.
The Central] Organ will be out in a few days, and we will send it to you.
As for the International, do not be optimistic and beware
the intrigues of the liquidators and opportunists.
Although Martov is now getting more left-wing, but that's because he's alone, and what will happen tomorrow? Tomorrow
he will slide back to their common plan: to shut the workers' mouths (and mind,
and conscience) with a rubber resolution in the spirit of Kautsky, justifying everyone and everything. Kautsky is more hypocritical than anyone, more disgusting than anyone
and more harmful than anyone! Internationalism consists, if you please,
in the fact that the worker of each country shoots at the workers of another under
the guise of "defense of the fatherland"!!!
Let them intrigue,— it is nothing more than a petty intrigue,
now, in such a world-historical] moment, to think about diploA. Shlyapnikov.
17/X — 1914.