V. I.

Lenin

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To:   L. B. KAMENEV

Dear L. B., First of all hearty greetings to all friends, thanks for the telegram
and heaps of best wishes! (Never mind the blot.) Salut, salut à
vous.. Ah, I’d give a lot to hear Montégus now.

But I’ve gone off the “serious” key.

And there’s “business” to discuss.

(1) I am enclosing our reply to the German
Vorstand. [1]

Show it to a narrow circle+the Committee of the Organisations Abroad and
return.

(2) A letter from Zaks for you . Read it, go into it , reply and return ....

All the best, Yours, Lenin

Morozov is talking nonsense.... [2]

A young man without allegiances, at loose ends.

Ryazanov in Vienna snaps and sulks—found himself looking foolish
after Plekhanov’s article in Pravda . (I wrote a long, heart-melting letter to Kiselyov . I don’t think anything will come
of it.)

Lunacharsky writes in Kievskaya Mysl [3] about “scientific mysticism”. Get hold of it and give
him a public fatherly trouncing.

Why don’t you write something for Prosveshcheniye ? [4]

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Notes:
[1]
Reply “To the Executive Committee of the German Social-Democratic
Party” (see present edition, Vol. 18, p. 204).— Ed .

[2]
Manuscript partly damaged. Here several words are illegible.— Ed .

[3]
Kievskaya Mysl (Kiev Thought)—a bourgeois-democratic daily
published from 1906 to 1918.

[4]
Prosveshcheniye (Enlightenment)—a legal theoretical
Bolshevik monthly published in St. Petersburg from December 1911 to June
1914. It was founded on Lenin’s initiative as a successor to the journal
Mysl , which had been closed down. On the eve of the First World
War, Prosveshcheniye was closed down by the tsarist government. Publication was resumed in the autumn of 1917, but only one
double issue came out.