Written: Written in the neighbourhood of Geneva
Published:
First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XV.
Sent to Geneva.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 137.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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• README
September 13, 1904
Dear Vladimir Dmitrievich,
I think you should not send any application, as we decided previously.[1]
Stick a leaflet on the pamphlet,[2] printing on it (1) an advertisement about your publishing agency (and on the back); (2) Boris’s statement on its prohibition (as already set); (3) the letter from Boris dated Sept. 12 (this one),[3] without the postscript; (4) a short additional remark, something to this effect:
“Such is the policy of people who so magnificently carried on a war ‘of principle’ against formalism and bureaucracy! It would, however, be interesting to learn which clause of the Rules prohibits Party members from publishing Party literature?
“V. Bonch-Bruyevich”
Greetings to everybody. I shall be back on Thursday, the day after tomorrow.
Yours,
N. Lenin
P.S. Inform Sergei Petrovich: (1) that on Thursday we shall evict him from his quarters and shall be spending the night there ourselves; (2) that Pan wrote about Samsonov four days ago. He should have been sent direct!
[1] At V. A. Noskov’s suggestion, V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich intended to apply to the Central Committee for the permission to organise a “V. Bonch-Bruyevich and N. Lenin Publishers of Social-Democratic Literature”.
[2] The pamphlet Our Misunderstandings by Galyorka and Ryadovoi.
[3] Lenin wrote his letter to V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich on the free space of V. A. Noskov’s letter of September 12, 1904, which he had received through Bonch-Bruyevich (see Lenin Miscellany XV, pp. 167–68).
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