Dear Mr. Avenar!

Thank you for your letter.

I would ask you to make the following corrections:

(1) Page 6 (No. 1). You present my words as follows: "not to carry out work in favor of a bourgeois revolution, which would deceive the working class."

This is very imprecise. We, socialist-revolutionaries, must not only carry out work in
favor of a bourgeois revolution but also lead it, direct it, together with the peasants,
against tsarism and against the liberals.

Perhaps it would be better to say: "... in joint work not with the liberal bourgeoisie, which wants to put an end to the revolution, but with the democratic peasantry against the treachery and betrayal of the bourgeoisie, which is becoming more and more counter-revolutionary day by day."

We, the Bolsheviks, are also for the participation of the proletariat in the bourgeois revolution. But we, along with K. Kautsky, believe that it is precisely together with the peasants, and not at all with the liberals, that the proletariat can bring the bourgeois revolution to a victorious conclusion.

(2) Pages 3-4.

Stolypin's article in "Novoe Vremya" appeared on January 4 (old style), not January 6.

(3) It should be added that Milyukov was with Stolypin on January 15.

(4) The last words of your article: "... countless masses of peasant proletarians."

To A. M. GORKY. AUGUST 14, 1907

Not "peasant proletarians," but "democratic peasantry."

In the social (socialist) revolution, we can count only on the urban and rural proletarians. But now in Russia, we do not have a social revolution, but a bourgeois one. Only the proletariat together with the peasants, together with the democratic peasantry, together with the broad masses of the peasantry, can bring such a revolution to victory.

Your N. Lenin

P. S. I received your letter very late. I have only a few minutes left.

Forgive me for writing in such haste.