V. I.

Lenin

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To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B., We sent you Nevskaya Zvezda No. 16 yesterday.

We too were exasperated in the extreme by No. 6 of Nevsky Golos and have already sent a letter of protest to Pravda . We
are writing some more today for No. 17 of Nevskaya Zvezda .... [1] “ Party candidates” must not be mentioned in the legal press;
we can speak about them in C. C. leaflets and Rabochaya Gazeta .

Moving here has given us so far :
1) a gain of one day (closer);
2) the arrival of Abramchik (this is a secret). He is already here. It
seems he will help us at the frontier. And perhaps (this is still open to
question) also with the St. Petersburg elections;
3) the hope of arranging a number of meetings. For this
two [2]

are already on their way. If they are not arrested, this will be
useful. But everything moves slowly and with one arrest after another.

As for the newspaper, this is what should be done: subscribe to
Russkiye Vedomosti [3] for yourself (you take the R.V.
anyway) and send it to us 4–5 days later, a couple of times a week. We
shall pay for it. You can’t get more out of Pravda , for its
circulation, they say, has fallen to 30,000 and things are hard....

Send by post ... the Vperyod [leaflet] (I haven’t got it) and
all those put out in Paris. You must arrange without fail for the
publication of the [C.O.A.] bulletins (modest ones for the time being)
listing the Paris [leaflets] and giving a brief review of each.

You promised to get something from Yuri about Plekhanov’s party
report. Nothing has been received so far. Send it!!

And what did Plekhanov have to say about T. and Ger—n ?...

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Manuscript partly damaged. Here and further several words
illegible. Words in square brackets have been inserted as context
suggests.— Ed .

[2]
A reference evidently to Inessa Armand and
G. I. Safarov.— Ed .

[3]
Russkiye Vedomosti (Russian Recorder)—a newspaper voicing
the views of the moderate liberal intelligentsia, founded in Moscow in
1863. Beginning with 1905 it was the organ of the Right wing of the
Constitutional-Democratic Party. The paper was closed down in 1918 together
with other counter-revolutionary publications.