V. I.

Lenin

A vast amount of material, particularly on the foreign policy of the Entente, is published every week in our
newspapers and in foreign ones (not only communist, but also
bourgeois papers of various countries).

This material (see also the Bulletin of the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Affairs ) is lost for international
communist agitation; yet it is extremely valuable.

I suggest that a committee be set up to summarise this material and publish monthly booklets.

The content: the facts of the foreign policy of the
Entente (plunder; wars; insurrections; financial strangulation).

The number of copies: as small as possible, since the main aim is translation into other languages .

A subcommittee of a few professors should (under strict
control) collect all that is valuable, particularly from the bourgeois newspapers (which best of all expose their “
rivals”).

A committee of Party comrades will read the professors’
manuscripts to correct them, and make the professors do
that.

Newspapers get lost; booklets will remain, and will help the foreign comrades.

Your opinion, please.

August 8, 1920

Lenin

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