V. I.

Lenin

May 20, 1914

Dear Alexander Antonovich, Your draft constitution is being
discussed. [2] It’s a long business: a discussion with Russia and with the Central
Committee.

The discussion article has nothing to do with the constitution. Send it over as soon as possible. The end of the
article on self-determination should appear in May, and
has already been sent off. [3]

Yours,
N. Lenin [1]

P.S. It would be a good thing if you sent us Pokrovsky’s
letters to read. Your proposal to have an exchange of letters with him, so as to get him out of the indecent Borba ,
is very interesting.

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Notes:
[1]
The letter also bears the signature of G. Y. Zinoviev.— Ed .

[2]
On May 12, 1914, A. A. Troyanovsky wrote Lenin a letter
suggesting improvements in the work of the editorial board of the magazine Prosveshcheniye and enclosing a draft “constitution” to
organise the work.

Troyanovsky’s article on the national question did not appear
in Prosveshcheniye .

[3]
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination appeared in the
magazine Prosveshcheniye Nos. 4, 5 and 6, for April, May and June
1914, under the signature V. Ilyin (see present edition, Vol. 20,
pp. 393–454).