V. I.

Lenin

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To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Via Caucasian Union Council To Yuri

Dear Comrade, Many thanks for your letter and the beginning (the end has not
yet reached us) of the article “ Iskra ’ s Military
Campaign”. I was especially happy to receive your letter since we hear so
rarely from Russia, so rarely do people write us not “in duty bound” but
to exchange ideas. Please write more often and collaborate more closely
with our new organ, which we shall begin publishing in the near future (we are sending a detailed letter about the paper to the Caucasian League
with a request that it be passed on to you too [1]

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ask for it and bring it to the attention of as many comrades sharing the
Majority views as you possibly can). I would say that your article is
unquestionable evidence of your literary ability, and I ask you not to give
up writing. It is quite possible that even this article could be adapted
and revised for publication (in its present form, as you remarked yourself,
it is somewhat out of date). Try to answer this letter as soon as possible
and to establish direct contact with us by letter, to correspond
regularly. This is of utmost importance considering the scanty flow of
literary contributions from Russia. Write also about local affairs, and
what Majority literature you have seen.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See V. I. Lenin, “A Letter to the Comrades” (present edition, Vol. 7,
pp. 523–28).— Ed .