V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v49;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

4/I. 1915.

Dear Colleague,

Yesterday I received your letter and sent the telegram "consens" – I agree. However regrettable it is that the editors have thrown out everything on socialism and everything on tactics (without which Marx is not Marx), I still had to agree, since there is nothing to be done against the argument you advanced ("absolutely impossible").65

I would be very grateful if you would send me a proof copy or drop me a postcard to let me know when it might be ready. Incidentally: would there still be time for some corrections to the section on dialectics? Perhaps you would be kind enough to let me know exactly when it goes to press and what the deadline is for submitting corrections. I have been working on this question for the last month and a half and think I could add something if there were time.

Further, I take the liberty of offering my services to the dictionary's editorial board, if there are still unassigned articles from subsequent volumes. I am at present in exceptionally good conditions as regards German and French libraries, which I can use in Berne – and in exceptionally bad conditions as regards literary work in general. Therefore I would gladly take on articles on questions of political economy, politics, the working-class movement, philosophy, and others. My wife, under the name N. Krupskaya, has written on pedagogy in *Russkaya Shkola* and *Svobodnoye Vospitaniye*,66 and has especially studied the question of the "labour school" and the old classics of pedagogy. She would gladly take on articles on these questions.

Yours faithfully,
V. Ulyanov
Wl. Uljanow. Distelweg. 11. Bern.