V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW44; ru:PSS/v51;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Comrade Zinoviev,

I am sending the preface to “Imperialism”*.

Please arrange also to have the Basle Manifesto of 1912 reprinted as an appendix. (It is not difficult to find the German text; you have Greenberg’s “archive” and the like, don’t you?)

I have received your theses on the Soviets and the conditions for their formation, but have only had time to glance through them. I have no objections.

July 7. Greetings! Lenin

What about my speeches and reports at the congress?** Must they be prepared in German or French? I think the opening speech (and others) should be in Russian (for almost certainly there will be theatres with a Russian audience). They will be translated. And, since there are theses, one can speak very briefly, referring to them.

What is your opinion? (The agrarian speech is for Marchlewski; the national question and the opening speech are for me, is that all?)

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* Lenin’s book “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” is meant (see Collected Works, Fifth Edition, Vol. 27, pp. 299-426). Ed.

** See V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Fifth Edition, Vol. 27, pp. 303-308. Ed.