Published:
First published in Pravda No. 19, January 24, 1924.
Printed from the facsimile.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
[1976],
Moscow,
Volume 35,
page 543.
Translated: Andrew Rothstein
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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January 20, 1922
Comrade Karpinsky,
Would you not write to me briefly (two-three pages maximum)
how many letters come from the peasants to Bednota[1]?
what is important (particularly important) and new in these letters?
Their moods?
The topical subjects?
Could I not once in two months receive such letters (the next by March 15, 1922)? α) average number of letters β) moods γ) most important topical subjects.
With communist greetings,
Lenin
[1] Bednota (The Poor)—daily peasant newspaper published in Moscow from March 27, 1918 to February 1, 1931, when it was merged with Sotsialisticheskoye Zemledeliye (Socialist Agriculture).
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