V. I.

Lenin

173

To:   MAXIM GORKY

How is it there is no news from you, dear A. M.? You wrote that you had long
finished your big work and were going to help us in Proletary . But
when? What about your doing a small article on Tolstoy or something of that
sort? Send us a line whether you intend to do so. [1]

Al. Al. is on his way to you. I can neither abandon the paper nor get away from
my work. But this is only a delay, I shall come all the same.

What do you think of Proletary ? It is an uncared-for waif. Never before have I so neglected my paper: I spend whole days
reading the accursed Machists, and dash off articles for the newspaper in
incredible haste.

Well, all the best.

Yours, Lenin

To M. F. thousand greetings! I shall bicycle down to see her!

Get Anat. Vas. to write for Proletary too! Let me do some
philosophic barking by helping Proletary in the meantime!

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Notes:
[1]
Gorky’s article on Tolstoy did not appear in Proletary . Asked
in 1927 whether he had written such an article, Gorky answered. “I
wrote something about Tolstoy for Proletary . I don’t remember
what the title was. Possibly, ’A Great Man’.”