V. I. Lenin

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To:   P. P. MASLOV

31.V.94

Just received your second letter and am hurrying to reply; if you write
at once your answer may still find me here (I’ll probably be here until
June 12).

Your suggestion appeals to me very much in principle . On
particulars, however, I cannot pass judgement, not having seen your
article. As for my own article, [1] strictly speaking, I do not think it is worth printing in its present form
(the form of a simple review of V. Y. Postnikov’s book). [2] ( In regard to the cost of publication, I think something not very long
would be much cheaper.)

All in all it seems that the matter will have to be put off until
autumn, [3] for even if you managed to send the article here it would still take quite
some time before it could be published. We shall have to discuss this
thoroughly in detail by letter. Still better would it be to meet in
person [4]

;

if you have the means (and the desire) to publish and want to write, and if
we see eye to eye, it should be possible to arrange.... [5]

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Notes:
[1]
See “New Economic Developments in Peasant Life” (present edition,
Vol. 1, pp. 11–73).— Ed .

[2]
We shall discuss this in greater detail. — Lenin

[3]
And this is not a long time. — Lenin

[4]
For experience shows that mail makes very slow haste. — Lenin

[5]
The manuscript breaks off here.— Ed .