V. I.

Lenin

TO M. G. VECHESLOV

For Yuriev

April 25

I have received your letter.

Please send us as soon as you can an exact account of how many suitcases you have received and of what kind,
how many have gone and how many remain. We need this to draw up our report and financial accounts. As regards
the literature, I have also long been asking you to write
how much you received, and what in particular, where you
sent it and how it was used.

We have not got the May Day leaflet (N.B.).

The money (100 marks) has already been sent; I repeat my request that you make an extra effort to obtain money
in Berlin and elsewhere for the suitcases; you will thereby
be giving us the most serious and essential help. How much
money of your own have you in hand? What is the average
(and actual) monthly turnover?

It would be very important to send Kharkov Days as soon as possible to the South, where they are pressing
for it.

I have not quite understood you about the bulletin.
(1) Is it the Iskra Promotion Group or the Neutral Group
that wants to publish it? [1] (2) Are the bulletins to be the
same as before or different? We think that it would be extremely unwise to spend money on bulletins of the old
type and, for our part, find it difficult to promise raw
material, for the reason that we are working intensively at
present on turning Iskra into a monthly paper, [2] and we
have neither the time nor the money for copying and sending out material. What we have to think of is not dividing up
the available material into bulletins, and weakening both
its importance and impression by circulating it in a raw
state abroad, but, on the contrary, concentrating all the
material in Iskra and accelerating its publication with
well-edited and illuminated material. Any other tactics would
mean not a struggle against, but a promotion of, the present
ideological vacillation and confusion.

It is not surprising that such bulletins were published
by the Neutral Group, with its absurd composition and programme, but we should expect more co-operation and
rational work from the Iskra Promotion Group. Try and pass on these views to your group (but do not read my letter
in full, because I am writing to you personally) and persuade it. Let us know its decision.

Bulletins reviewing the foreign press on Russia are a different matter. They are of course useful. Send us cuttings
from the Russian papers. Would it also be possible to supply the Iskra editorial board with Russian journals, after
they have been read in Berlin? If it would, let us know what
journals we could count on (we have some, but not enough).