V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Aspects du vertige mondial”, Paris (Flammarion). Leon Frapie. “Les contes de la guerre” (ibid.)*.

I have just received from Sverdlov a set of your publications (it wouldn’t be a bad thing to send me this set, too).

Not enough! Not enough!! Not enough!!!

Hire a group of translators and publish ten times as much. Peluso can (and must) write three pamphlets a week (on all subjects, compilations from our newspapers—you give the subjects and a list of articles to be compiled). His article in *Le Droit du Peuple** (“The Counter-Revolutionaries”) is good. Pay him well and publish ten times as much. (You must hire translators to publish in four languages: French, German, English and Italian. You have nothing in the last two. A scandal! A scandal!!)

You have plenty of money. (Be sure to send an account of the sums you have spent.) We will give you more and more, without stint. Write and say how much.

You must publish a hundred times as much, in four languages, leaflets of 4-8-16-32 pages.

Hire people for this.

NB: Collect a set of *Spartacus* (I saw No. 11, September 1918) 195 and republish the whole set in four languages. Also Junius and Liebknecht. Commission a h i s t o r y of the struggle against social-chauvinism in England, France, Germany, Italy. Form groups for this purpose (Gorter, Balabanova + ? + ?? and so on).

Yours, Lenin

P.S. What is your optimism about revolution in the countries of l’Entente*** based on? Facts? Considerations? If necessary, use cipher, but write more precisely.

If you are ill, get proper treatment and do not leave the sanatorium. Keep in touch by telephone, and send your deputy on visits.

*Pravda* No. 17

First published in full,

from the manuscript

NB:

*—Pierre Loti. “Some Aspects of Universal Dizziness”, Paris (Flammarion). Leon Frapie. “Tales of the War” (ibid.). Ed.
**—*Le Droit du Peuple*—a newspaper, the weekly organ of the Social-Democratic Party of Switzerland, and also of the party sections of the Canton of Vaud and the city of Lausanne. Ed.
***—of the Entente? Ed.