à la 1789 and à la 1848. Finally (it would be better to make this the second part, and the previous one the third), on the bourgeois character of the revolution, more detailed on the economic side, and then expose the "Liberationists"¹ to pieces in all their interests, tactics, politicking.

Really, it's a rich theme and a fighting one against the philistines of *Iskra*. Please take it up, and work on it more thoroughly. It is extremely important to produce a substantive popular work on this theme.

And then still on the matter of the split. You did not understand me. You have no reason to wait for me, because these are different themes: one—history (we shall try to put it in order); the other—a sketch of their polemical methods. A literary-critical sketch on the theme, say, "Lubok Literature."² And then here already analyze, in several chapters for an entire pamphlet, with citations and explanation of all this vulgarity of Starover, Martov, and others in their polemic with *Proletarii*, as well as the refrains in "Majority or Minority" and so on. Pin them down for their miserable method of waging war. Make a type of them. Draw their portrait in full stature from citations from themselves. I am convinced this would come off well for you, only gather a little collection of citations.

I shake your hand firmly. Your Lenin

P. S. I received the article about Kuzmin-Karavaev. The feuilleton from '48 as well.

in Viareggio (Italy)

Written at the end of August 1905

Sent from Geneva

First published in 1934 in *Leninskii sbornik* XXVI

Printed from the manuscript