V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Dear A. M.,

I am very glad that you have agreed to try writing a May Day leaflet.

I enclose the decisions of the Conference.

I have seen *Zhi-voye Dyelo*.[1] A filthy liquidationist trick with a “side-wind”. A liberal sermon; they are glad that the police prevent an open statement of the question of the Party.

*Zvezda* will be continued, either as a weekly or as a daily costing a kopeck.

Your splendid “Fairy Tales” have been a very, very great help to *Zvezda*, and that has given me very great pleasure, so that the pleasure—to speak frankly—outweighs the regret I feel over your “affair” with the Chernovs and Amfiteatrovs... Brrr! I am glad, I confess, that their affair is “coming to grief”.

But the fact that you have no means of subsistence and no place to publish your writings is bad. Ah, if only you had long ago driven out the leech Pyatnitsky and put an honest manager, a plain manager, in charge of *Znaniye* (perhaps it is too late now, I don’t know)!!! If only... It would have been a gold-mine...

I see Rozhkov’s *Irkutskoye Slovo*[2] very rarely. The man has become a liquidator. And Chuzhak is a stupid, pretentious, rank-and-file fool.

Yours, Lenin

Thanks to M. F. for the letter to Moscow and a thousand greetings!

(Italy)


[1] *Zhi-voye Dyelo* (*The Living Cause*)—a Menshevik liquidationist weekly published in St. Petersburg from March 20 (April 2) to April 24 (May 7), 1912. Four issues appeared.

[2] *Irkutskoye Slovo* (*The Irkutsk Word*)—a Menshevik liquidationist newspaper published in Irkutsk in 1912.