V. I.

Lenin

506

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

I) I am sending Tinsky with additions (something at least should be
said in the anti-S.R. vein, otherwise it is not a
Social-Democratic piece of writing. And your “mottoes” are no good
besides). (Mottoes, if needed, should be different .)

2) I have started to write “about Kautskyism” for Russian
collections. [3] I have already written you this.

3) I shall try and sit down soon to write a reply to
Yuri. [4]

4) 1,500 copies of the collections will be enough .

5) Re the 2nd collection, I am against deciding right
away. Grisha’s letter is not clear: 500 frs.+paper? Am writing
him. Let’s wait for his reply . The devil take him!! He isn’t clear
about it!!

6) Put in Saf—chik on the Duma group (as the item on the
prisoners of war is already set up and will go inde ). [1]

7) Re the article on the women’s movement, I have already
written you about my doubts (send in de Ms, [2] there is little space). Instead of answering , you write:
“commissioned”, although you know that I did not commission it!! This is
an omission. If an article isn’t written, one should first let one
know the subject, plan and details, before advising to write it.

8) Re the national question, I would very much like to
republish self-determination with an addition . Would
Volna undertake it? Did you write to them about it ?

9) The Gnevich
collection?? [5] In Polish or Russian?? You must find this out and also
who else is writing and on what subject?? This must be made clear . What have you written him?

Best regards, Lenin

10) I propose the enclosed translation from De Tribune for
inclusion in
Sbornik . [6]

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Notes:
[1]
After it.— Ed .

[2]
de manuscrit.— Ed .

[3]
Lenin intended to have the article on Kautskyism published in the
symposium Pod Starym Znamenem , but its publication was
discontinued after the appearance of the first issue. The Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism have a plan of the article
headed by Lenin, “On Kautskyism” (see Lenin Miscellany XXX ,
pp. 133–34). A special work on Kautsky was written by Lenin in 1918 (see
“The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky”, present edition,
Vol. 28. pp. 227–325).

[4]
This refers to Lenin’s article “Reply to P. Kievsky (Y. Pyatakov)”
(see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 22–27).

Points 4–7 refer to Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata . Point 5 refers
to Belenky’s proposal that the second issue of Sbornik should be
published in Paris. Safarov’s articles were not published in the
collections. The article about the women’s movement was that by Zinaida
Lilina.

[5]
Gnevich —pseudonym of Fabierkiewicz, a leader of the Polish
labour movement, who was in Petrograd at the time. Two issues of the
journal Zycie (Life) in the Polish language were published in 1916
with his co-operation.

[6]

No. 2 of Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata carried an article by
Henriette Roland-Holst “Ambiguous Position”, which was a translation of
an article published in the newspaper De Tribune on August 22,
1918.