The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
For Leninism = Against
Trotskyism

Two Letters of Lenin Written
During the October Days, are Put
Before the Readers of the DAILY
Worker. This is the First. The
Second Letter of Lenin VIII Be
Published in Tomorrow's Daily
| WORKER.
AS is to be seen from the text, the
"A letter from Lenin printed below
was written exactly a week before
the October upheaval.
The circumstances preceding the
writing of this letter were, in broad
outline, the following: On Oct. %,
1877 (Oct. 10, by the old Russian
style), Lenin, at the risk Of falling
in the hands of the counter-revolu-
tionary espionage, arrived in Petro-
grad and appeared at the meeting of
the C. C. of the Russian Social-Demo-
cratic Labor Party (Bolsheviki) i,
where he delivered speech in which
he insisted upon the inevitability of
insurrection and the necessity of
making the technical preparations
for it. The Central Committee,
against the two votes of Kamenev
and Zinoviev, adopted the resolution
drawn up by Lenin which declared
that both the international situation
and the inner situation of the Rus
sian Revolution placed armed revolt
on the agenda":
Recognizing that armed revolt
Is inevitable and that the time is
fully ripe for it, the Central Com
mittee instructs all Party organic
atoms to let this serve as the guild
ing line and to consider and solve
all practical questions (the Soviet
Congress of the Northern district,
the removal of the troops from
Petrograd, demonstrations of the
people of Moscow and Minsk) from
this viewpoint"
On the following day, 18th (24th)
October, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who
were in the minority, appealed to the
! larger Party organizations with the
well-known leaflet: "For the present
moment. In this document, con-
trary to the decision of the C. c., they
theoretically opposed revolt.
In the meantime the question of re-
volt acquired ever increasing import
ance.
On the 10th (29) October there took
place a conference of the G. G. of the
Russian Social Democratic Labor
Party (Bolsheviki) with responsible
party workers, at which, again
against the two votes of Kamenev
and Zinoviev, the resolution proposed
by Lenin was adopted, that "the
meeting welcomes and fully supports
the resolution of the Central Com
mittee and calls upon all organiza-
tions, as we'll as alR workers and
soldiers, to make all-round and inten-
sive preparation for the armed revolt
and to support the centre set up for
this purpose by the Central Commit
! tee; it expresses the profound convic-
ton that the Central Committee and
the Soviets will indicate in good time
the most favorable moment and the
most suitable means for the action"
AS the practical centre for conduct
ing the revolt there were elected:
Sverdlov, Stain, Djershincky, Bub-
nov and Uritzky.
On the same day there was formed
the Military Revolutionary Commit
tee in the Petrograd Soviet.
In these days, so decisive for the
revolt, there appeared in the "Novaya
Zhizn" of the 18th (30th) of October
an article by w. Basarov discussing
the contents of the leaflet issued by
"two noted Bolsheviki' against an
action, and on the 18th (31st) of Oc-
tober there appeared in the same
paper a note by Kamenev on the sac
ton, in which he declared in his own
and Zinoviev's name that it was
5heir duty, "in the given circum-
stances, to pronounce against any at
tempt to take the initiative for an
armed revolt, as this would be DOOM
ed to defeat and would have the most
injurious results for the Party, the