Abstract
Jean-Pierre Mousson-Lestang, Three letters of Chicherin, Shliapnikov and Radek respectively concerning the relations between the Bolsheviks and Sweden, 1911-1919. Swedish archives contain three letters that project an interesting light on former relations between Russian and Swedish Social Democrats. The first of these letters is the one addressed on August 8, 1911 by Chicherin to Hjulman Branting. The other two were written by Alexander Shliapnikov and Karl Radek respectively; the first is dated May 16, 1916; the second is undated but has probably been sent during summer 1919. The three documents witness in various manners the importance that the RSDWP attached to the Swedes. Whilst Leninist Bolsheviks endeavored to conquer the adhesion to their thesis of Zimmerwaldian "Young Swedes," ambiguous relations were being maintained until 1917 with members of Swedish majority led by Branting, a dominant and too little known personality of the Ilnd International.
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