V. I. Lenin

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

LETTER TO R. V. MALINOVSKY

April 21 (May 4), 1913

Dear R[oman] V[atslavovich],

I hope you have received all the materials you ordered! Drop me a line about it. I should also like to know whether there are any special questions concerning these materials (their incompleteness, or their point of view, etc.) and to correspond about it.

Please send me the new Duma handbook with detailed information about each deputy. It is a necessary thing for work. Also, I would very much ask you to send new bills and statements submitted to the Duma, together with the Duma information sheet. I learned from the newspapers that a bill has been introduced to increase the salaries of postal and telegraph employees; send it. We must raise discussion of it in the press.

I see with great pleasure your participation, and that of Deputies Petrovsky and Badayev, in *Pravda*. It is excellent that such co-operation is being arranged. Incidentally, about *Pravda*: in my opinion it has been noticeably improving of late. It would only be desirable, after the publication of the report,¹ also to secure the publication of data on the circulation. The objections to this, in my opinion, are not serious. What is your opinion and that of the other ideological contributors? I should also like to discuss three shortcomings of *Pravda* of late with the people closest to the newspaper: 1) they printed the Helsingfors “story” and the accusations²... This is wrong, in my opinion; we must wait for the final decision of the case, not only the local decision; 2) they took under their protection Mr. Reisner.³ Mr. Reisner does not deserve protection. Could we not secure a more careful preliminary discussion of such questions? There is nothing urgent about them; 3) Bogdanov’s article⁴ on tactics in the Sunday issue of *Pravda* (No. 301) is amazingly empty. Commonplaces. Utter lack of content. And at the end (about “tact”) a hint against Plekhanov!! and also empty, unclear, worthless. Such articles are positively harmful.

My wife’s illness⁵ compelled me to leave for the village of Poronin, near Zakopane. My address: Ulianow. Poronin (Galizien). Austria.

Greetings and best wishes,

V. Ul[yanov].

May 4, 1913