At the sitting of the O.C. on April 24, 1905, I forgot to motion a proposal to invite Comrade Arnatsky (r e a l [NB] name), a member of the Kazan Committee, to attend the Congress with voice but no vote.{1} I request the Credentials Committee to examine this proposal.
Comrade Arnatsky is abroad, in France, and told me he was ready to attend the Congress at his own expense. He will soon be going to Russia and could swiftly report to his committee on the Congress. Despite all its efforts, the Organising Committee was unable to contact the Kazan Committee or obtain a reply from Kazan. There is therefore almost no hope of the Kazan Committee taking part in the Congress. Our efforts abroad to contact Kazan from over here have likewise failed, and there has been no reply to our letters. Arnatsky has also failed to get in touch with Kazan from over here. In view of the impossibility of having a delegate from the Kazan Committee to attend the Congress, should we not invite Comrade Arnatsky, as a member of the committee, to attend with voice but no vote?
Lenin.
| Motioned on April 13 (26) |
At the O.C. sitting I reported on the written request from Comrade Filatov (real name) for admission to the Congress with voice but no vote. Comrade Filatov is the author of the articles on the uprising in Vperyod, signed V.S. For the Congress he has prepared a letter and a pamphlet-report: “Application of Tactics and Fortifications to a Popular Uprising” (in a suitcase left in Boulogne). I request that Comrades Belsky and Voinov who had worked with Comrade Filatov in Paris{2} should be asked to give him a reference.
Lenin
| Motioned an April 14 (27) | Printed from the original |
| First published in 1931 in Lenin Miscellany XVI |
{1} Lenin erroneously calls V. V. Adoratsky, Arnatsky. p. 150
{2} During the discussion of this question at the fourth sitting of the Congress on April 14 (27), 1905, Lenin said that he had not proposed an invitation for V. V. Filatov (NN), but had merely handed his written request to the Congress (see Trety syezd R.S.D.R.P., p. 80).
The proposal to invite Filatov to the Congress with voice was rejected. p. 151
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