The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-11
MEMORIES. OF LENIN

The following section from MEM
cries of Lenin' by his wife and life
long cOmrade, N. Krup5kaya, is the
first Of q series of six excerpts from
the second volume of these engros-
sing and instructive "reminiscences
which will appear ON this page
throughout the present week. we
publish them in connection with the
Lenin Memorial, which comes next
month.
These memories give an intimate
picture of the great leader of the
revolutionary workers of the world,
who led the masses of Russia to
the successful October Revolution
and the establishment of the Die
tatOrship OF the Proletariat on one
sixth of the worlds land surface.
The following excerpts reveal how
thoroughly and inseparably the
everyday thoughts and actions of
Lenin were tied up with the strIg-
giles of the working class.
Both volumes of Memories of
Lenin" are published by Interna-
tional Publishers, and may be Sc
cured through workers bookshops
or the Daily Worker.
PARIS
(1909-1O)
We started out for Paris in the
middle of December. On the 21st,
Party Conference was to take place
with the MenSheviks, and Vladimir
Iyich was completely absorbed with
this. It was necessary to appraise the
situation correctly, to straighten out
the Party line, to see that the Party
remained class party, the vanguard
which even during the most trying
times would not become isolated from
the rank and file, from the masses
that would help them to overcome all
difficulties and organize them for
fresh battles. 1t was necessary to
check the hquidators. Contacts with
the organization in Russia were bad.
The conference could not hope for
considerable support from the organ
tzationS in Russia (the only delegates
TO come from Russia were two COM
rades from Moscow; Baturin came
from the UralS and on the second day
Poletayev, member of the Third
Duma, came from st. Petersburg
The OtzoviStS organized themselves
in a separate group and were very
excited. Before the Party Conference
was opened, the Mensheviks called q
conference of their groups abroad in
Basic at which number of splitting
resolutions were passed. The atmos-
phere was becoming very tense.
Vladimir Ilyich took only very re-
mote interest in the efforts we were
making to fix up our new quarters
He had more important things to
think about. We rented an apartment
on the outskirts Of the city on the
Rue Bonier, near the Notifications,
= street adioining the Avenue dor
leans, not far from the Pare Mont
souris. The apartment was light and
spacious and even had mirrors over
the fireplaces. This was a special
feature Of the new houSeS.) There
was a room for my mother, one for
Maria IlyirlShna, who had arrived
in Paris, one for Vladimir Ilyich and
A4JoCA1 dA1O llFillS IN'Uils 6uJ LI1lS
rather luxurious apartment did not
at all fit In with our mode of life
and the furniture" we brought from
Geneva. The contempt with which
the concierge" looked upon our
white deal tables, common chairs
and stools was worth seeing. In our
'parlor' we had only couple OF
chairs and q small table. 1t was not
cozy by any means.
The household cares Immediately
fell to my lot. In Geneva household
affairs were much simpler; here there
seemed to be a lot of red tape about
everything. In order to get the gas
connected we had to go three times
to place in the center Of the city
in order to get the necessary certifi-
cate. Bureaucracy Is rampant in
France. In order to be able to bor-
row books from q library, the land
lord had to act as guarantor, and he,