Written: Written after May 23, 1914
Published:
First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII.
Sent from Poronin to Geneva.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1971,
Moscow,
Volume 36,
page 286.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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Dear Friend,
Many thanks for Volume I of Rubakin. I will return it soon. If it is urgent, drop me a line. I am very glad that you don’t sympathise with Sovremennik: it is a rotten undertaking by a bloc of two lots of scoundrels, the liquidators and the Narodniks. We shall attack it violently. (Mr. Stankevich invited me; I replied: “Because I do not agree in the main, I must decline to be a contributor.”[1] )
Of course, to earn a living all of us sometimes have to work in bourgeois publications! But Messrs. Martov and Dan have made a “demonstration” of it! Plekhanov, too, is in that disgraceful place![2]
I shall be glad to send you the credential of a delegate: do you want it to be legal (how?) or illegal?[3]
All the best,
Yours,
Lenin
[1] See p. 276 of this volume.—Ed.
[2] The work of L. Martov, F. Dan and G. Plekhanov in Sovremennik.
[3] V. Karpinsky was delegated to the Vienna International Congress of the Second International (which was not held).
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