References are being made to a statement of mine.{1} The Kazan man, who has arrived, said that he may possibly have been elected. He should be invited as a member of the committee. I find the end of the Credentials Committee’s resolution strange and propose its correction.
| First published in 1937 in the book Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P. Protokoly (The Third Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Proceedings) | |
| Printed from the text of the book |
{1} See p. 15O of this volume.—Ed.
{2} No Kazan Committee delegate attended the Congress until the eighteenth sitting, in view of the fact that the Organising Committee had been unable to contact the Kazan Committee in good time. V. V. Adoratsky, a member of the Kazan Committee, was abroad at the time. To ensure the attendance of the Kazan organisation, Lenin wrote to the Credentials Committee, suggesting that Adoratsky should be invited to attend the Congress with voice but no vote as a member of the Kazan Committee. The Credentials Committee proposed that Adoratsky should be invited “simply as a member of the Party”, and it is this formula that Lenin found strange.
The Congress, by a majority, with two against, decided to invite Adoratsky “as a member of the committee”. It proved to be impossible to inform Adoratsky of this decision, and he did not attend the Congress. Only by the eighteenth sitting did a delegate from the Kazan Committee arrive. He was I. A. Sammer (Savich), who was allowed voice but no vote. p. 145
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