V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

28/I. 1922.

G. M.!

I have read and am returning Gorev’s work.245

I expected more. A former Bolshevik who has so captivated you, and, in your opinion, has again become a true Bolshevik, ought to have produced an impressive, vivid, strong, popular piece of propaganda, a defence of communism for France, proceeding from its electrification.

But Gorev’s effort has turned out “professorial”.

I suggest the following plan for your consideration:

1) send it to press at once, so as to publish it soon in any case;

2) propose to Gorev—if you agree—that he write an additional introduction or afterword, in which he attacks French capitalism in an extremely popular, graphic, and slightly more sweeping style (prescribe for him 3 grammes of extract from Larinism for this purpose: they say it has appeared on sale in Moscow) and tells the French workers and

* Above the text of the letter, on the right, V. I. Lenin wrote: “To Comrade Krzhizhanovsky together with both folders, the green and the red.” Ed.

peasants: you could become three times richer in 3–5 years and work no more than 6 hours a day (approximately) if France had Soviet power carrying out electrification;

3) if, in your (or Gorev’s) opinion, Gorev will do this badly or reluctantly, then consider whether to commission this work specially from someone else (a brief “Ballod”246 for France);

4) send me the galley-proof of Gorev’s article as soon as possible (publish it as a pamphlet or in some journal—at your choice). I may write a preface.247

Greetings! Yours, Lenin