Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

267TO THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST BUREAUON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE R.S.D.L.P.September 2, 1910, CopenhagenAt a plenary session in January 1910, the Central Committeeof the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, inorder to emphasise its earnest desire for unity, adopted adecision to request the International Socialist Bureau toaccept as representatives of the Party on the Bureau twocomrades: G. Plekhanov and N. Lenin. It goes withoutsaying that the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Partylays claim to only one vote in the Bureau but it would liketo have fuller representation, as in the case of France.This decision—to add Comrade G. Plekhanov to thepresent representative, N. Lenin—was unanimously supportedby the Social-Democratic delegation at the Congress.Representative of the R.S.D.L.P. on the InternationalSocialist Bureau.N. LeninPrinted in 1911, in the book:Huitième Congrès socialisteInternationale, Gand(The Eighth International SocialistCongress, Gand).First published in Russianin 1929 in the second editionof V. I. Lenin’s Collected WorksPublished according tothe text of the bookTranslated from the French