V. I.

Lenin

213

To:   THE BUREAU ABROAD OF THE R.S.D.L.P. CENTRAL COMMITTEE

To the C.C. Bureau Abroad

5.XII. 10

Dear Comrades, We have been approached by a member of the S.D. Duma
group [1] who has stated categorically that without another thousand the paper cannot be
launched. [3] We therefore most insistently urge you to send the other
thousand at once .

N. Lenin [2]

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Notes:
[1]

N. G. Poletayev.— Ed .

[2]
The letter was also signed by G. Y. Zinoviev.— Ed .

[3]
A reference to money needed to publish Zvezda . In his letter
to V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich of December 9, 1910 (see this volume,
Document 214) Lenin informed him that the money had been sent.