V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v38
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

(of philosophy, etc.) as reflected in the writings of Mikhailovsky, is particularly important for our journal, whose audience is almost entirely working-class.

We shall await your reply in the next few days.

The Editorial Board

Printed from a typewritten copy (perlustration)

1 This draft of a letter to G. V. Plekhanov with a proposal to write an article on N. K. Mikhailovsky was written by V. I. Lenin on behalf of the editorial board of the Bolshevik journal *Prosveshcheniye* (Enlightenment) published in St. Petersburg. This document, together with letters from V. I. Lenin and N. K. Krupskaya of January 29 (February 11), 1914, was sent from Cracow to A. I. Ulyanova-Elizarova in St. Petersburg (see Collected Works, Fifth Edition, Vol. 55, pp. 349–350, 448–449). The article on Mikhailovsky for the journal *Prosveshcheniye* was not written by G. V. Plekhanov. On February 9 (22), 1914, the newspaper *Put Pravdy* published V. I. Lenin’s article “The Narodniks on N. K. Mikhailovsky” (see ibid., Vol. 24, pp. 333–337).

The draft of the letter to G. V. Plekhanov is printed from a typewritten copy of the Police Department.

2 N. K. Mikhailovsky was the most prominent theoretician of liberal Narodism. In 1892 he became head of the journal *Russkoye Bogatstvo*, in whose pages he waged a bitter struggle against the Marxists. A critique of Mikhailovsky’s views is given in V. I. Lenin’s work “What the ‘Friends of the People’ Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats” and in other writings.