V. I. Lenin

Source: en:CW/CW36; ru:PSS/v46;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

December 1, 1902

Dear Georgi Valentinovich,

I was about to ask you the reason for your silence when I received your letter. I shall carry out the commissions.

Why are you silent about (1) the subject for *Iskra* and (2) the feuilleton on Tarasov? 205 Did you not receive my letter from Berne? Please reply as soon as possible whether you intend to write a leading article for *Iskra* on that or approximately that subject? The sooner the better, because No. 28 is already ready and No. 29 has begun to be set up. In No. 28 there is a leading article by Vera Ivanovna against the S.R.s, who distort history by alleging that in the days of the “Narodnaya Volya” 206 the “politicians” were not insulted, etc. The title: “Le mort saisit le vif”.*

How are your debates with “Vladimirov” getting on? And your lecture? How are Lalayants’ circles and others? And what about the “Zhizn” people”?**

I press your hand.

Yours,
Lenin

Oh! I almost forgot that Lev***
Please send the enclosed letter by city post.

* “The dead seize the living.”—Ed.
** “Zhizn” people”—members of the Social-Democratic “Zhizn” group.—Ed.
*** The sentence breaks off.—Ed.