ABSTRACT
Koba'sapologia for violent methods was becoming more and more urgent, and Lenin, in the distance, was full of praise for his Caucasian disciple. In his Iskra Lenin devoted a whole page to praises of Koba's article, 'What's to be Done?'—from which he quoted extensively. Lenin severely criticized a 'hybrid proposal of Krassin's'. He protested against the 'Machiavellian tactics of intellectuals crazy for popularity', and demanded an effective boycott of the Duma. Lenin found that the young Caucasian delegate, whom he knew as a dynamic agitator, was also a strategist of the revolutionary movement. Koba's letter was the typical manual of the complete revolutionary Bolshevik. Lenin was delighted with it; he found it clear and concise, 'worthy of a captain of the Revolution'. Shortly after the death of his wife, Koba received a letter from Lenin. It was rather pessimistic in tone, for the writer found himself unsupported in the Party Committee.
