Dear comrade!

I have received and read your article. In my view, the subject matter is well chosen and worked out correctly,—but it is insufficiently polished from a literary standpoint. There is far too much—how shall I put it?—"agitation" in it, which is unsuitable for an article on a theoretical question. Either you yourself should rework it, in my opinion, or we shall attempt to do so.

Thank you very much for the news about Kostrov. Please ask Abel to write and inform us more frequently. This is important, and we know nothing.

Could you not obtain and translate Kostrov's Georgian articles: (a) against the liquidators, (b) on the national question for cultural-national autonomy, (c)—most importantly—against Plekhanov's preface to Arcomed, against Plekhanov's defense of hegemony.

I am leaving for several weeks to Bern. Upon my return, I hope we shall converse once more in letters.

Pressing your hand. Your Lenin

P. S. Thank you for the issue of *Pravda***.

1913

* This refers to premises for listeners at the Party school, which the CC of the RSDLP intended to organize in Poronin. — Ed.

** This refers to No. 119 of *Pravda* from May 25, 1913, with an article by M. S. Olminsky "A Questionable Blunder." — Ed.

Written between June 18 and 22

Sent from Poronin to Berlin

First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XIII

Printed from the manuscript