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

6. Year of birth: 1870

7. Nationality: Russian

8. Education (elementary, secondary, higher)

9. 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

    

10. 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

11. What administrative work are you doing at present:

            Chairman of the C.P.C. and C.L.D.

12. What part are you taking at present:

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

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

                 member of the C.C., R.C.P.

14. When did you join the R.C.P.:   in 1895

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

16. 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

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