V. I.

Lenin

1903

To Kurtz

January 17, 1903

Yesterday we received Kievski S.-D. Listok No. 1, dated
November 30 (sic!), through an outsider. It is simply a
scandal that our Iskrists always lag behind! Why didn’t Zarin
send us this leaflet in time? Why hasn’t he written a single
word about this undertaking? We implore Zarin to link us up directly with some member of the Committee,
someone who is conscientious and mobile and who knows everything that is going on. Every leaflet (whoever issues
it) must be sent immediately to two different addresses in
two copies, one in an envelope, another wrapped up in a
Russian newspaper. Then we must immediately be given contact with Vakar . We are very much afraid that the Kiev
Iskrists, owing to their inactivity and onlooker attitude,
will suffer the same fate as that of the St. Petersburg
Iskrists. Not a word either about receipt and distribution
(N.B.) of the literature! This is a desperate situation!