V. I. Lenin

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

Dear Comrade,

The Central Committee authorises the Editorial Board of the Central Organ to give Comrade Bonch-Bruyevich instructions both with regard to the text of the statement “from the Editorial Board” in his sheet No. 258, and with regard to the nature of literary control; both these matters, in our opinion, come within the competence of the Central Organ and we cannot undertake to give Comrade Bonch-Bruyevich the appropriate instructions.

The Editorial Board should have informed not the Central Committee, but Comrade Bonch-Bruyevich himself, about the mediocrity of the articles and the inexperience of Comrade Bonch-Bruyevich.

The Central Committee will, of course, receive the proofs and will, as far as possible, try to tender its advice in particularly important cases. We do not consider the question of the text of the statement very important, but “special control” by the Central Organ over such a publication as Bonch-Bruyevich’s sheet would, in our opinion, be useful.

We shall discuss the question of the most convenient type.

We have authorised Comrade Bonch-Bruyevich to hand in material to the printing-press himself, if the Editorial Board of the Central Organ has no objection to this.