V. I.

Lenin

Dear Alexander Antonovich, Many thanks for your news from Vienna: it’s very
interesting. Trotsky’s venture is of great importance [1] ; the
break-up of the August bloc [2] is complete (the Letts have
withdrawn from the Organising
Committee!). [3]

Grigory says that you have continued (1) the statistics of collections (by workers’ groups)
after October 1, 1913 (up to January 1,
1914) [4] ;

(2) the statistics of voting for the Seven and for the Six
(also at least up to January 1, 1914, or February 1, 1914). [5]

Please complete this work as soon as you can, and send it over immediately: it will go into the pamphlet we are
sending out shortly. [6]

Hurry!

I have received No. 1 of Prosveshcheniye . Not bad. There
was no point only in having the review of Levitsky with
the silly word “factionalism”. [7]

And what is your opinion of the issue?

Greetings to Yelena Fyodorovna.

Also to Bukharin.

Yours, Lenin