V. I.

Lenin

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To:   Y. M. STEKLOV

To Nakhamkis

To answer your questions:
1) In referring to “us” and “the editors” I had in mind the article on
the programme of Rabocheye Dyelo [2] and nothing else. [1]

2) The collocutors in Bellerive were we two : Potresov and myself,
your new acquaintances.
3) If I previously told you that you were not right and then wrote and
stressed that you were right, this means that my views had changed and
approximated to yours.

We hope to be able in the not very distant future to inform you and
Goldendakh (we place great hopes on the closest co-operation with you both)
of the final form of the relationships (on the editorial plane) between us
(the two collocutors in Bellerive+one in Russi )
and the Emancipation of Labour group. [3]

Thanks for the article “The Historical Preparation of Russian
Social-Democracy”: we are very happy to print it and believe that our
journal [4] would gain much if such articles appeared in it more
frequently. The article will also be sent to the Emancipation of Labour
group, so please do not be annoyed by a possible delay.

My colleague has one point to make: the credit for establishing the
first contacts with the workers belongs not to the groups you mention, but
to the Chaikovsky group. [5]