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LENIN COLLECTION.
always, like a disease.
Martov sent Kautsky and Zetkin a translation (on typewriter) of his pamphlet, which helped us enormously: both Kautsky and Zetkin condemned the pamphlet harshly, the first calling it "repulsive," the second calling it "filthy"6).

Well, all the best.
Write to *Zvezda*.
Scribble a couple of lines if you're not too lazy. Big regards to Maria Fedorovna.

Your Lenin.

*) The school in Longjumeau (near Paris), organized by the Bolshevik Center in the summer of 1911 for workers arriving from Russia. Vladimir Ilyich delivered here a series of lectures on political economy, on the agrarian question, and on the theory and practice of socialism.

2) "Negotiations"—referring to A. M. Gorky's negotiations in connection with plans to publish in Russia a thick journal and a daily newspaper in which Vladimir Ilyich was supposed to participate. These plans did not come to fruition.

3) D. I. Leshchenko, a Bolshevik who participated in a number of party publications in 1906-1907. After October he headed Cinema and worked in Narkompros.

4) "Fair"—what was meant by this designation is unclear.

5) The pamphlet by L. B. Kamenev—"Two Parties," published in August 1911 with a preface by V. I. Lenin.

6) The pamphlet by Yu. O. Martov—"Saviors or Liquidators," published in the summer of 1911 and devoted to internal party struggle. The above-mentioned pamphlet by L. B. Kamenev was the Bolsheviks' answer to this pamphlet.

[Beginning of 1912, Paris]
Dear A. M.! We shall soon send you the resolutions of the conference1). At last we have succeeded—in spite of the liquidationist scoundrels—in reviving the party and its Central Committee. I hope you will rejoice over this together with us.

Won't you write a May leaflet? Or a little leaflet in the same May spirit? A short one, "uplifting to the spirit," eh? Shake off the old days—do you remember 1905?2)—and scribble a couple of lines, if the desire strikes you. There are 2-3 illegal printing presses in Russia, and the Central Committee will probably reprint it in several tens of thousands. It would be good to have a revolutionary proclamation in the style of the "Zvezda" tales3). I'm very, very glad that you're helping "Zvezda." It's devilishly hard for us with it—both internal and external and financial difficulties are immense—yet we're managing so far.

I shake your hand.

Lenin.

P. S. So *Sovremennik*4) actually managed to die! That's a good move on its part.

*) This refers to the Prague Conference in January 1912, at which the party's central apparatus was restored.

2) An allusion to a series of proclamations and appeals written by A. M. Gorky in 1905 for the Central Committee of the party.

3) In *Zvezda* Gorky published a number of his works, which bore the general title "Tales."

4) *Sovremennik*—a monthly journal published from January 1911, and A. M. Gorky also participated in it.

2 (166).

321a)
End of December 1912, Kraków]
Dear A. M.! I congratulate you on the New Year, and wish you all the best, and above all good health! We have here now Malinovsky, Petrovsky, and Badaev. Yesterday I received your letter, read it to them, and all were extremely pleased. Malinovsky wanted to come to you, but the distance probably prevented it. Ah, if only we could be nearer to you... If health permitted, to move to these Galician resorts here like Zakopane, to find a healthy place in the mountains, two days closer to Russia, to be able to receive visits from workers, to set up a workers' school again, the border crossing is not difficult, the fare is 12 rubles from Petersburg, communication with workers in Moscow and the south is also possible!.. I got carried away in dreams in connection with the journey of Maria Fedorovna... That's how wonderfully she thought it up, truly wonderfully. Be sure to scribble a note when you get a chance—did she manage to legalize herself (probably she will). Also scribble how Malinovsky can find her in Palermo or Moscow? Through Tikhonov? If we can't find funds to expand and strengthen *Pravda*—it will perish. The deficit now is 50-60 rubles a day. We must increase the circulation, reduce expenses, expand the newspaper. We've sustained 200 issues—a record. We do influence 20-30 thousand workers systematically in a Marxist spirit—it's an enormous undertaking, it would be devilishly unfortunate if it were to perish. We're thinking it through from all sides and in every way with the deputies how to get out of the difficult situation of *Pravda*, but we're afraid that without financial support from outside we won't make it.

Malinovsky, Petrovsky, and Badaev send you warm regards and best wishes. Fine people, especially the first. One can, one truly can build a workers' party with such people, though the difficulties are incredibly great. The Kraków base is proving...