Tell me in more detail about the independents. Then some further questions: are there any workers remaining in Kharkov from the "Ivanovo-Voznesensk" school and tradition? are there individuals who were formerly directly in this "economist" and "anti-intellectual" circle, or only their successors? Why don't you write a word about the "workers' funds bulletin" and don't send it to us?

We have seen here only a manuscript copy of this bulletin No. 2. What sort of group is publishing it?

Are they ardent economists or simply inexperienced youth? A purely working-class organization or under the influence of economist-intellectuals?

Are there any remaining traces of the "Kharkov Proletarian" circle?220

Is *Iskra* being read in the workers' circles? with explanations of articles? Which articles are read more eagerly and what explanations are required?

Is propaganda being conducted among the workers regarding conspiratorial methods and transition to illegal status on a broad scale?

Try to make fuller use of the Petersburg Zubatovism and send us workers' correspondence.

Your Lenin in the journal

Written 15 January 1903

Sent from London

First published in 1924 "Proletarskaya Revolutsiya" No. 3

Printed from the manuscript