The electoral campaign in Petersburg has been launched successfully — hegemony has been won by *Zvezda* and *Pravda* — we must not let it slip from our hands and must carry the matter through to completion. This is a question of purely journalistic interest, apart from everything else, which of course I am not discussing.

I await news concerning the question that has been "resolved positively."

With greetings, V. Ulyanov

P. S. I await your answer about the articles "Half-Yearly Results"*.

P. P. S. Could you not send at least a clipping from No. 17 of *Nevskaya Zvezda* — the article "Unity or Schism"?

in the 4th edition of the Works

Written August 2, 1912

Sent from Cracow to Petersburg

First published in 1950

V. I. Lenin, vol. 35

Printed from the manuscript