New Book Published in Germany – Clara Zetkin: Memories of Lenin
We hereby share an unofficial translation of a note published by Dem Volke Dienen on the 24th of July, where they announce the availability for purchase a book, sold by the Ostwind Verlag (Eastern Wind Publishing).
Ostwind Verlag has published two important texts by Clara Zetkin, two and a half weeks after her 169th birthday. The publishing houses writes:
“Clara Zetkin met Lenin during the crucial years of the Russian Revolution—as a comrade, observer, and astute chronicler. In ‘Memories of Lenin,’ she paints a vivid portrait of the revolutionary: focused, human, and politically precise. Zetkin recounts conversations, impressions, and encounters that reveal Lenin’s clarity, work ethic, and strategic vision, as well as his humor and his ability to listen. The result is a firsthand historical document—one that remains as relevant today as ever. This book is complemented by Zetkin’s programmatic essay, ‘What Women Owe to Karl Marx’.”
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) to Comrade Clara Zetkin
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) (CPSU) sends warm Bolshevik greetings on her 75th birthday to a veteran of the international workers’ movement, a fearless spokeswoman for the proletarian revolution, the oldest leader of the Communist International, a friend and comrade of the working masses of the Soviet Union, and a fighter for the liberation of working women. As a comrade-in-arms of Engels, you fought tirelessly against opportunism in the Second International and, with all your strength, your great intelligence, and your revolutionary passion, rose up against Bernstein’s views and against revisionism. In the days when the World War broke out, when the leaders of the Second International shamefully allowed themselves to be harnessed to the wagon of imperialism, you, together with Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Karl Liebknecht, raised the banner of proletarian internationalism high. You were also at our side during the October Revolution and the Civil War, when the worldwide counter-revolution attempted to stifle the world’s first proletarian state. As a selfless friend of the Soviet Union, you are always at the forefront when the enemy threatens the land of the Soviets. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) congratulates you and is firmly convinced that you will continue to fight in the front ranks of the Communist International for many years to come.
CC of the CPSU (Pravda vom 5. Juli 1932, Moscow)
Our translation.
