V. I.

Lenin

162

To:   HIS SISTER MARIA

February 17, 1908

Dear Manyasha, Please send me the following books:

1. Minuvshiye Gody No. 1 (January, price 85 kopeks)
containing letters from Marx to Mikhailovsky and from Mikhailovsky to Lavrov .

2. Materialy k istorii russkoi kontrrevolyutsii , Vol. 1.
Price 2 rubles 50 kopeks.

3. Nashi deputaty [1] (Third Convocation). 50 kopeks
“(Osnova”—bookshop ?).

4. Lokot. Byudzhetnaya i podatnaya politika Rossii .
1 ruble.

5. Almazov. Nasha Revolyutsiya (1902-7). 1 ruble 50
kopeks (work)—I do not know whether this last-named book is any use as I have no information about it. All the
same, I must take a look at it!

6. Ocherk zabastovochnogo dvizheniya rabochikh Bakinskogo neftepromyshlennogo raiona za 1903-6 gg . Baku. 1907.
Price 1 ruble 50 kopeks.

I have not received any Duma minutes of sittings later than the twentieth. I must have them together with the Bills!
The newspaper Stolichnaya Pochta , for instance, recently
reported the publication of a programme of “a group of moderate peasants ”. Please get it for me! It would not be bad
to get hold of programmes, announcements and leaflets of the Octobrists, the Rights, the Cossack group, etc., if
you have any Duma contacts. All these “bits of paper” probably lie about on the floor of the Duma and nobody picks
them up.

I wrote to you a few days ago about translations (of
Kautsky); did you get that letter? [2]

Did you get the manuscript of the second part of my Volume
Two [3] (sent from here on February 5, 1908 N.S. by a roundabout route)?

I shall write to Mother about money.

Yours,

V. Ulyanov

If you have an opportunity, please pass on the enclosed
sheet to Meshkovsky. I should like to get a direct address
for correspondence from him and from Lindov. Tell them that. What was the outcome of Lindov’s “squabble”
with
Bonch [4] and the conflict at the publisher’s on the same
grounds?

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Notes:
[1]
If there is an edition containing portraits the best thing would
be to buy that.— Lenin

[2]
See Letters Nos. 160 and 161.— Ed .

[3]
The manuscript referred to was that of Lenin’s “The Agrarian
Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution,