Lenin: 199. TO HIS SISTER MARIA












V. I.

Lenin



199



To:   HIS SISTER MARIA


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Written: Written December 10 or 11, 1909 Sent from Paris

Published:

First published in 1929 in the journal Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya No. 11.

Printed from
the original.


Source:

Lenin
Collected Works,

Progress Publishers,

1977,

Moscow,

Volume 37,

pages 443-444.


Translated: The Late George H. Hanna


Transcription\Markup:
D. Moros


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Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova,

Davydov’s House, Apt. 4,

Bozheninsky Street,

Devichye Polye,

Moscow,

Russia

Dear Manyasha,

I recently learned, quite by accident, that there is to
be a congress of statisticians in Moscow at Christmas—
or rather one of the sections of the congress of doctors and
naturalists will be a congress of
statisticians.[1] I have
already heard the names of a couple of acquaintances who
will be there (one from Moscow, the other from the
provinces), and no doubt there will be more than two
acquaintances there. It is extremely important to take advantage
of this to get me the Zemstvo statistical publications. I
urge you to try to find at least one statistician of your
acquaintance at the congress and give him my address and
my request to send me Zemstvo statistical publications:
(1) on peasant and landowner farms—especially current
statistics and house-to-house censuses; (2) handicraftsmen
and industry; (3) on the law of November 9,
1906[2] and
on the acquisition of commune lands by peasants. I think
you may give my address direct. If they say that they
cannot send them abroad, please give your address and I will
send you the money, so that you can send the statistics
on to me. They are absolutely essential to me. If it will
be of any use I can write a brief appeal to the statisticians
(I am sending one for you to use at your own
discretion),[3]
so that statisticians of your acquaintance can distribute



it (or show it) to those from other towns, adding their own
request (or trying to get consent) to send the publications.

Drop me a line if you find someone who can do it. If
you do not, I shall write to you again.

The publication I wrote about last time is not called
Izvestiya zemleustroitelnykh komissii (although I have heard
that such a publication exists too) but Izvestiya Zemskogo
Otdela (Ministry of the Interior). Is there any civil servant
of your acquaintance who can acquire this work?

All the best to you, kiss Mother.

Yours,

V. U.


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Notes





[1]

The Twelfth Congress of Russian Naturalists and Physicians was
held in Moscow from December 28, 1909 to January 6, 1910; a
sub-section of statisticians took part.

[2]

This refers to Stolypin’s decree of November 9 (22), 1909
“Supplement to Certain Provisions of the Operative Law on Peasant
Landownership and Land Tenure”, which granted peasants the
right to leave the communes and set up farmsteads. (For further
details of Stolypin’s agrarian policy see Collected Works, Vol. 13,
pp. 217–431.)

[3]

The manuscript of Lenin’s note of request to the statisticians
has been lost. Copies of it were made and distributed among
statisticians; one copy was seized during a search at the house of
Lenin’s sister Maria in 1909. The text of the copy was preserved
in the records of the Department of Police.




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