LETTER to Comrade E. ZINOVIEV.
[Between August 24 and September 4, 1909. Bonbon, Department of Seine-et-Loire.]
Dear Grigory! I am sending you Vorwärts¹ with Kamensky’s article.
In my view, the latter must be published—immediately, for we are already dreadfully behind schedule with this article, which is, in every respect, absolutely

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essential for the Proletariat. We will have to divide it into
two feuilletons. The first one has been marked by me (pp. 1–33) and revised.
Perhaps you will manage to shorten it even further? I do not object to giving proofreading another try at further condensation: please send it straight to typesetting and instruct them to forward the proofs to me without delay.
This is an important article, and it demands particularly careful attention.
It is regrettable that Kamensky works so carelessly. The topic is most promising—but he tends to ramble, to scatter his thoughts in all directions, never quite managing to grasp the central point or get to the heart of the matter.
Should we not send him the second half for revision along these lines? That would be ideal! Write to him on our joint behalf, stating that we are asking him to rewrite the second part—while preserving the first draft—and to make the necessary revisions in the spirit we have indicated—so that, when he is done, he will have produced a truly outstanding article, and so forth—and then send him the second half. There is not much hope that he will actually undertake such a thorough reworking, but we must keep pressing him, and press him again.
I promised just the other day to prepare a leading article for the Proletariat. Let us see what comes of it.
I will write the articles for the Proletariat and send them straight to typesetting²—since you plan to be in Paris by September 4.
I do not intend to return before September 15.
You are holding Kamensky back in Arcachon in vain. If he has had a chance to rest, let him come back—and above all, we must find a way to send him off with reports and analyses.
I shake your hand. N. Lenin.
I will not take on the task of sorting through the Bundists’ materials. But we must strike at their No. 2. You should handle that. Let us publish a major, combat-ready issue!
Write an article against Jtë 2*3.
1 We are referring to the set of Vorwärts issues from late July and August 1909, in which daily articles and detailed correspondence were printed—starting with VS 174 of July 29, concerning the uprising in Barcelona (Spain), and continuing with ΛΙ 178 of August 2, covering the general strike in Sweden. Lenin sent this material to Zinoviev for articles in Pravda.
1 We are referring to Lenin’s articles for Nos. 47–48 of Pravda (see the previous letter to Zinoviev).
This paragraph was added in pencil at the beginning of the letter, in the manuscript. Ed.

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9 Here, it seems, we are talking about No. 2 of the newspaper “Golos Bunda” for September 1909—a publication of the Central Committee of the Bund, clandestinely circulated within Russia.
Nothing on this topic was ever printed in Pravda. Only in No. 9 of Sozialdemokrat, dated November 13, does a brief, chronicle-like note appear concerning “Golos Bunda.”