Questionnaire for Delegates of the Eleventh All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(Bolsheviks) (original) (raw)

V. I. Lenin

Questionnaire for Delegates of the Eleventh All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(Bolsheviks)


Published: First published in 1959 in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI. Printed from the form filled in by Lenin.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers,1971, Moscow,Volume 42, pages 455-456.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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  1. Name in full: Ulyanov (Lenin) Vladimir Ilyich

  2. With what voice (voting or debating) are you attending?

  3. Delegate’s card: No. 1

  4. What organisation delegated you: C.C., R.C.P.

  5. What All-Russia Party conferences and congresses did you attend as a voting delegate:

congresses: all, except those of 1898 conferences: and the summer of 1917 practically all

  1. Year of birth: 1870

  2. Nationality: Russian

  3. Education (elementary, secondary, higher)

  4. a) Basic profession and speciality up to 1917:

         litterateur

    b) How many years have you worked at this profession:

         from 1894 to 1917, i.e., 23 years
  5. a) Principal means of livelihood before 1914:

    literary earnings and salary from the Party

    b) during 1914-1917: ditto c) during 1917-1921: ditto up to 25.X. 1917. After 25/X salary from the Soviet Government

  6. What administrative work are you doing at present:

        Chairman of the C.P.C. and C.L.D.
  7. What part are you taking at present:

    a) in co-operative work } } I am not taking any actual part b) in trade union work }

  8. What Party work are you doing at the present time:

             member of the C.C., R.C.P.
  9. When did you join the R.C.P.: in 1895

  10. Did you previously belong to any other parties, if so when and to which: no

  11. Were you subject to repressive measures for revolutionary activity (when):

     arrest and exile in 1887; arrest and exile
       to Eastern Siberia 1895 (XII) — 1900

    How long were you:

    1. in prison: for several days in 1887 and 1900; 14 months 1895-1897

    2. in penal servitude: not at all

    3. in exile: three years (Yenisei Gubernia, Minusinsk Uyezd)

    4. in emigration: 1900-1905 and 1908-1917

Signed: V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

14th of December 1921


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