V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48; en:CW/CW35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

There will be a couple of articles from here in two days, and then you are to receive an article on the budget from Tver.

1) I strongly advise you also to reprint from *Zvezda* No. 34 (December 17, 1911) Frey’s article: “The Role of Workers’ Electors in the Election Campaign” (it would also be good to reprint his article from No. 36 (December 31, 1911) on the role of peasant electors*). Do not be too concerned about cutting down the size. It is better to publish a full, substantial piece that will be useful by giving sound guidance in the elections. Do not strive for cheapness and brevity—better to publish a solid work.

If in an extreme case it is absolutely impossible to publish all the articles, be sure to return the unpublished ones.

2) Here it is urgently necessary to take care of accurate correspondence. Let your secretary write to me directly here, and not via Arcachon, so that there is no delay.

Give a better address for letters to you.

3) It is a mistake not to reply to the liquidators. This is a great error. You can and must reply, without saying a word about the conference, printing a brief answer to every lie in *Zhivoye Dyelo*: “*Zhivoye Dyelo* in such-and-such an issue lies, like all the liquidators.” It is necessary to reply, otherwise you are losing ground.

4) If Plekhanov writes, his articles must be sent here in galley proofs. Otherwise it turns into a “privilege” which is inadmissible for us. Be careful. You will force us to leave if Plekhanov is given the privilege of writing against the conference when we cannot write for it. It would be mean to allow abuse when praise is not allowed.

5) Be sure to send us, in a special packet wrapped in *Novoye Vremya*, 80 copies of the following issues of *Zvezda*: Nos. 24 and 25 of summer 1911, No. 18 (54), No. 19 (55), No. 22 (58), No. 23 (59)—we do not have them—and *Zhivoye Dyelo* Nos. 11 and 42. Please send confiscated issues separately, wrapping them in Rightist newspapers.

* See *Collected Works*, Fifth Edition, Vol. 21, pp. 41-52. *Ed.*

6) Inform us soon about the daily newspaper. What will its format be? What size articles can be sent?

7) Try to buy cheaply the verbatim reports of the Third Duma, especially the 1911-12 session. Write.

In the book: *From the Era of “Zvezda” and “Pravda” (1911-1914)*.

Copies (perlustration)

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Written April 22, 1912

Sent from Paris to St. Petersburg

First published in 1923

Issue III

Printed from a typewritten copy