V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v4;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

37 (132)
December 19, 1902 [London]

Dear G[eorgi] V[alentinovich],

I have received your letter and am hastening to reply.

So you are writing the pamphlet.*)
This pleases me very much.

It would be very good to publish some chapters of the pamphlet in the *Iskra* feuilleton, including the one you mention.

I shall wait for it NEXT week; otherwise it will not get into No. 30. It is desirable that it should get in, so that we may attack the Socialist-Revolutionaries without let-up.

And are you not going to reply to Tarasov (the offprint from No. 3)?

Please do not abandon your intention.

He must certainly be given a good lesson. 2)

Drop me a line saying whether you are writing, and when you think you will finish, so that I may know the make-up of the issue.

Whether a trip to Brussels is necessary I cannot judge, for I do not know what will be at the conference.

There is money now (America sent 5,000 francs)—so if necessary, one can go.

In my opinion, Ginzburg [Koltsov] can replace you only as an exception, for ONE occasion, but by no means permanently, for it is quite possible that decisive steps may be needed there too. 3)

If you decide to go, write or telegraph about the money.

Levinsohn 4) threatens to leave because Lalayants has been appointed manager of the printing plant, and he is on bad terms with him. I have written to Lalayants asking him to “settle this matter”.

Do you also help to pacify Lev[insohn] and impress upon Lal[ayants] the need for “caution” in his dealings with Lev[insohn].

I am sending to the printer (Lalayants) the beginning of the translation of Kautsky 5) and a popular pamphlet on soldier life; 6) please look through it at least in proof.

Our workers in St. Petersburg have been arrested, and so have our intellectuals. The Economists have incited a section of the workers. Hence 7) Nadezhdin’s delight. 8) He ought to be taken to task for his demagogy. The scoundrel!

Lepeshinsky 9) is in the fortress, transferred there “pending the desire for interrogation”. He is threatened with trial by the Chamber of Justice (i.e., penal servitude). A letter of his about the Organising Committee was seized.

Stavsky 10) is now in Berne—a worker-orator from Rostov. L. I. [Axelrod-Orthodox] has established contact with him: he is an *Iskra* supporter. He ought to be drawn closer.

The Tomsk people have reissued our draft programme with a preface—a dithyramb to *Iskra* and *Zarya* and all their work.

We shall soon receive fresh news about the steps of the Organising Committee.

I press your hand firmly. Yours, Lenin.

The transport is in a bad way, a very bad way! It’s a downright calamity!!