Written: Written in Geneva and mailed to a local address
Published:
First published in 1928 in the journal Oktyabr No. 12.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1977],
Moscow,
Volume 43,
pages 114b-115a.
Translated: Martin Parker and Bernard Isaacs
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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16/VII. 03
Dear V. D.,
G. V. told me that you can get from one of your acquaintances a
Brockhaus and Efron encyclopaedia. If so, I would kindly ask you to get me
the volumes containing the articles:
Peasantry,
Serfdom
Serf economy,
Corvée,
Quit-rent.
I am greatly in need of the reference material in these volumes for an article I am writing in a hurry.[1] Please let me know if you can get them.
Yours,
Lenin
Just received the pamphlet by Engels[3] and am sending it on to you. Ask V. M. to translate all the Vorbemerkung[2] and return the pamphlet to me without delay.
When could she return it?
Just received your report.[4] Thanks!
[1] Lenin was working at the time on the article “Reply to Criticism of Our Draft Programme” (see present edition, Vol. 6, pp. 438–53).—Ed.
[3] A reference to Engels’s “The Peasant Question in France and Germany” (see Marx and Engels, Selected Works in one volume, Moscow, 1968, pp. 633–50).
[4] The reference is to the report “Division and Sectarianism in Russia” written by V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich at the request of Lenin and Plekhanov for the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. Later the report was published in the Social-Democratic paper for members of religious sects Rassvet (Daybreak) No. 6–7 for 1904. The draft resolution on the publication of a periodical for members of religious sects was written by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 6, p. 475).
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