539. To L. B. KAMENEV^[1]

Written at the end of February-beginning of March 1920 · First published in 1965 in Collected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51. Printed from the original. · page 350

I think you should “wear them out” with practical assignments:

Dan—sanitary inspection, 

Martov—control over dining-rooms.

Notes

[1] Written in connection with the election of the Mensheviks F. I. Dan and L. Martov to the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ and Red Army Deputies.

In the elections to the Moscow Soviet, which were held in the second half of February and early March 1920, 1,566 deputies were returned, including 1,316 Communists (84%), 52 Communist sympathisers (4%), and 46 Mensheviks (3%).