[9] A few months earlier, Lenin had complimented Trotsky in one letter: “The reconciler, Trotsky, is now compelled to recognize the inevitability of a break with the ‘patriots’—i.e. who are justifying the entrance of workers into the war Industries Committee.” But Lenin also found something to criticize: how Trotsky, out of “sheer false pride,” had defended Akakii Chkheidze, the prowar Menshevik in the Russian Duma. Lenin to Safarov, February 10, 1916, in Gankin and Fisher, 574.
[10] Lenin to Kollontai, February 17, 1917, in Gankin and Fisher, 576.