V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v55
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

12. III. 09.

Dear Anyuta, Today I received clean sheets 1-9 and sheet 13. "Clean," i.e., on good paper and apparently already printed, but with a stamp on top of each sheet (a printer's stamp) that is incomprehensible to me: "proof."

Be that as it may, whether this is proof or already printed sheets, in any case I must say that the mixed-up paragraphs have been corrected quite properly and that on the whole these clean sheets are quite, quite good. I now dream and ask for only one thing: to speed up the publication of the book. Now the matter is fully in order, the proof-reading is going excellently; speed up, speed up at all costs, for the delay has been devilish, impossible. Therefore, if anything at all should hold you up again, be sure to hire an assistant proof-reader immediately (if you have not already hired one).

I am sending a list of misprints not corrected but indicated in my previous corrections: this list applies only to sheets 6-9 and 13 (I will send this list for the first five sheets tomorrow or the day after, for I gave away those sheets and must first demand them back).

These misprints must certainly be included in the list of errata at the end or the beginning of the book, for some of them distort the meaning. But on the whole there are so few misprints that on no account should the book be delayed because of them.

I have not yet received sheets 10, 11 and 12 (pp. 145-192) in page-proof form; therefore a list of errata for them will be sent separately. I indicate precisely: list of errata for such-and-such page-proof sheets. Without waiting for the last list from me, the book must be issued with this list of mine under the heading: Errata Noticed.
The most important: p. 126, line 16 from the top.

I press your hand firmly and kiss Mama.

Yours, V. U.

P.S. Please do not soften anything in the passages against Bogdanov, Lunacharsky and Co. It is impossible to soften them. You deleted that Chernov is a "more honest" opponent than they, and that is very regrettable. The shade of meaning has come out wrong. There is no correspondence in the whole character of my accusations. The whole point is that our Machists are dishonest, vilely cowardly enemies of Marxism in philosophy. 267

LIST OF ERRATA FOR SHEETS 6-9 (pp. 81-144):
Page
Line
From top or
from bottom
Instead of: Should read:
83, 14 from top ne mozhet mozhet
85, 4 from top samo sami
89, 12 from bottom zamechaniyakh Zamechaniyakh
90, 14 from top myshleniya myshleniye
91, 12 from bottom sut yest

Page
Line
From top or
from bottom
Instead of: Should read:
93, 11 from top dereva derevo
94, 11 from top s krivlyaki krivlyaki
95, 2 from bottom ad. hond. ed. Lond.
97, 4 from bottom zagorazhivayet zagorazhivayut
100, 4 from top rs. r. r.
103, 3 from top materialazma. (in the heading of Chapter II) materializma. II
103, 6 from bottom sleduyushchei chetvertoi
106, 13 from top Gerinsa Geringa
110, 7 from bottom tezise, o tezise Marksa o
121, 13 from top rassuzhdali rassuzhdayem
122, 10 from bottom !!!! » !!
123, 15 from top Stimmen stimmen
» 17 » » »
124, 10 from bottom izr cheniye izrecheniye
126, 16 from top sostoyit v sostoyit ne v
128, 17 from top na ne
135, 8 from bottom nezavimo nezavisimo
138, 17 from top razvitiyu razlichiyu
139, 1 from bottom 1893 1843
143, 17-18 from top klounami i professorami klounami-professorami
» 7 from bottom A. Feierbakh L. Feierbakh
144, 1 from top osnovy osnova
» 17 from top Istorii o filosofii Istorii filosofii
LIST OF ERRATA FOR SHEET 13 (pp. 193-208):
194, 20 from top ne mozhet ne vesti ne mozhet vesti
195, 8 from bottom Grossman Grassman
196, 1 from top » »
197, 3 from top obyektivny "obyektivny
206, 2 from bottom Gedachte Gedachte)
208, 1 from bottom Pag Prag

Sent from Paris to Moscow

First published in 1930



in the magazine



Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya, No. 1

Printed from the manuscript