My proposal for the publication of a private social-democratic newspaper (weekly) in St. Petersburg is as follows:

The editorial board shall be composed of 3 persons: Finn, Olminskii and Iordanskii, and if 1 deputy or Balabanov is included in the editorial board, the editorial board shall be supplemented by Turutin or his like-minded (bolshevikcom).

The Bolshevik literary workers of the "Proletarian" organ agree to take part in this organ on condition that the party line is followed, that Plekhanov is invited, and that the initiators agree in principle to enter into an agreement with the Central Committee when it finds it possible to issue an official organ in Russia.

18/III 10.

A. Finn.

N.Lenin.

Grigoriy.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 23578 - autograph of G.E.Zinoviev.

1 Some provisions of the draft were used in the preparation of the edition of the newspaper "Zvezda". See doc. 29.