V. I. Lenin

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

Dear Colleague,

I am sending you another article by I. Gylka. The author reminds me that he is expecting an advance.

It is absolutely necessary to reply to him at once (you can do so through me, but be sure to use a separate sheet of paper). The author lives in Lemberg, is making a special study of his subject, and such a contributor must be enlisted. I again advise you to give him an advance and in any case to reply to him at once.

N.B.: If Gylka’s articles are not suitable, return them to him at once, without fail!

We have received the parcel and cannot help complaining.

Of the books—only one! Write and tell us why. Did other members of the staff take the other books that came to the editorial office? For long or for good? In that case we should have the parcel sent for a limited time. We repeat, it is impossible to work without books.

The business office should give more attention to this.

We received *The Voter’s Guide* two and a half weeks after it came out! And a postal packet would have cost only five kopeks...

There has been a delay with the newspapers after all. We are without newspapers and will have to go without them for another two or three days.

I would strongly advise sending a reporter to the City Council to find out how many applications are coming in* from house-tenants and to start systematically printing reports about this (encouraging the successful districts and appealing to the unsuccessful ones). There is very little time left and the newspaper must take the whole of this matter in hand.

* from which districts? streets? etc., in greater detail.

We must get from the City Council, through acquaintances among the statisticians (or officially from the editorial office and State Duma members), all the statistical material (if it is not available, buy *Rech* for those years and months, or some other newspaper) on the elections to the First, Second and Third State Dumas, plus statistics of St. Petersburg (dwellings, population, etc.). With such material in hand and with a capable reporter visiting the City Council daily or two or three times a week, it would be possible to run a good newspaper section on the progress of the elections.

Are you sending *Pravda* to Vienna, to the Wiener *Arbeiter-Zeitung*? 84 Send it and send us a copy by book post.

I advise you to reply to Trotsky in the “Letter Box”: “To Trotsky (Vienna). We shall not reply to letters that are nothing but squabbling and mud-slinging.” Trotsky’s vile campaign against *Pravda* is a sheer tissue of lies and slander. The well-known Marxist, the Plekhanovite Rothstein (London), wrote to us that he had received Trotsky’s mud-slinging letter and replied to him: I cannot accuse the St. Petersburg *Pravda* of anything. And this mud-slinger and liquidator is lying right and left.

Yours ready to serve, V. Ulyanov

P.S. It would be even better to reply to Trotsky in the “Letter Box” as follows: “To Trotsky (Vienna). You are wasting your time sending letters that are nothing but squabbling and mud-slinging. There will be no reply.” 85