V. I.

Lenin

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To:   MAXIM GORKY

21/I. 13

Dear A. M., The comrade who will forward this letter on to you is Troyanovsky, who
now lives in Vienna. He and his wife have now energetically taken in hand
Prosveshcheniye . He has raised a little money, and we hope that
thanks to their energy and assistance we shall succeed in putting up a
small Marxist journal against the renegade liquidators. I think you, too,
will not refuse help for Prosveshcheniye .

Yours, Lenin

P.S. I hope you received my long letter concerning the Vperyod
people. [1]

How on earth did you get yourself into

Luck ??? Not in the wake of the deputies, surely? But they simply
got caught in the trap and will probably soon leave it.