In our opinion, we must send to the Samovars3 Mikhail
Mironovich 6 (tomorrow we will try to send him: i.e. so that
he departs to you tomorrow. I spoke with him today and he is in agreement). He has an inconvenience traveling to Russia now, but this
inconvenience is unimportant, he agrees to travel to Russia as well. Do
this: send him immediately with two missions: (1) immediately
send Lyubich abroad; 7 (2) see the Samovars, persuade them to appoint [someone] abroad and to depart.
It is unreasonable, absurd, wildly risky to risk failure, when Igor
in the official paper being forwarded to you herewith expresses agreement to go abroad and even promises to deliver abroad
not only one Adrianov, but "London candidates" 8 (i.e.
Roman -)- Adrianov, generally two:
from here the necessity is clear, unconditionally, of Lyubich, for otherwise the troika of ours does not give
a majority).
Tomorrow we are sending theses regarding the declaration about the liquidators and recallists.9
I shake your hand
Yours, Lenin
[Postscript by G. Zinoviev.]
Liber even threatened today to "seize" our
30 thousand (for a legal publishing house). We offered Leva 10 and their group 5 - 6 pages for the professional-cooperative
section. — One request to you: for God's sake don't leave
yourself, until it becomes clear what's what. Write if there is
anything new.
Grigory
If Karsky 11 has not yet returned the foreign passport (Persian) sent to him from here, leave it there for Varsky.
We are sending the letter to Kautsky and other holders tomorrow.12

1 Justification of the date: Igor's (B. Gorev's) statement (see Works, vol. XV,
pp. G83 — 684) "To the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee," which is mentioned in the letter,
"submitted today," is dated February 17, 1911 (see p. 16).
2 "Resolutions adopted by the group in San Remo," see appendix to
Л5 24 of "Golos Sotsial-Demokrata".
3 Liber, M. I. (Goldman, Ber) — one of the leaders of the Bund; at the London
Congress of the RSDLP, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee from the Bund; in 1908 — 1911*
was a member of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee (for details, see Works, vol. XV, p. 699).
LENINIST COLLECTION
The Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee at the end of 1910 - beginning of 1911 included:
from the Bolsheviks P. A. Semashko (Alexandrov), from the Poles Tyszko,
from the Mensheviks B. I. Gorev-Goldman, from the Bundists M. I. Goldman
(Liber) and from the Latvians Yu. Elias (Schwartz) (for details, see Works, vol. XIV, p. 540,
note 146).
5 "Samovars" — V. P. Nogin and Lindov (Leiteizen), members of the Russian
Bureau of the Central Committee, who were at that time in Tula.
® "Mikhail Mironovich" — Mandelstam N. N.; was at that time
in Leipzig.
7 "Lyubich" — Summer I. A. (see Works, vol. VIII, p. 543).
8 According to the charter of the Central Committee, adopted at the January plenum of the Central Committee of the RSDLP in 1910,
candidates for the Central Committee, elected by the London Congress, "performing some party work
in Russia"; as a candidate, the Mensheviks nominated Roman (K. M.
Ermolaev), who for 1 1/2 years, along with other liquidators,
disrupted the work of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee.
9 The original text of the theses ("declaration") is not available in the archive of the Institute
Lenin; a document close in content may serve the "Draft Joint Statement" given in the appendix, p. 17,
written by G. Zinoviev.
10 "Leva" — Vladimirov M. K. In the years of reaction he was a conciliator
(see about him Works, vol. XIV, pp. 570 — 571). We are probably talking about the participation of
Bolshevik-Conciliators in the Bolshevik journal "Thought" in the department
"Socio-economic life," where notes from the life of trade unions and on issues of the cooperative movement were placed (see
Works, vol. XV, pp. 612 — 613, note 16).
11 "Karsky" — Markhlevsky Yu. Yu. (see Works, vol. XIV, pp. 592 — 5ГЗ).
12 "Holders" — Kautsky, Mehring, and Zetkin (see Works, vol. XIV,
pp. 533 — 536, note 139).
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