LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
XIV. 
LENIN'S BEHEST TO THE SECTIONS OF 
COMINTERN ON THE QUESTION 
OF ORGANIZATION. 
(From his speech on the Organizational Structure 
of the Communist Parties, delivered to the 
Fourth Congress of the Comintern. 
. At the Third Congress in 1921 we adopted 
a resolution on the organizational structure of the 
Comunist Parties and on the methods and nature 
of their work. The resolution is an excellent one, 
but it is Russian from beginning to end, i. e. it is 
based entirely on Russian conditions. This hag its 
advantages, but it also has its disadvantages. The 
disadvantages are, as I am convinced, that not a 
single foreigner can read it—I went through the 
resolution again before making this statement. 
Firstly, it is too long: it contains fifty or more para- 
graphs. Foreigners as a rule do not read such 
things. Secondly, even if they do read it, they will 
not understand it, because it is too Russian. Not 
because it is written in Russian—it has been excel- 
lently translated into every language—but it is im- 
pregnatized with the Russian spirit. And thirdly, 
if by chance a foreigner does understand it, he will 
not be able to carry it out. I have spoken with some 
of the delegates who have come here and I hope 
during the course of the Congress to speak with 
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