V. I.

Lenin

Dear Friend, Many thanks for Volume I of Rubakin. I will return
it soon. If it is urgent, drop me a line. I am very glad that
you don’t sympathise with Sovremennik : it is a rotten undertaking by a bloc of two lots of scoundrels, the
liquidators and the Narodniks. We shall attack it violently.
(Mr. Stankevich invited me; I replied: “Because I do not
agree in the main, I must decline to be a contributor.” [1]

)

Of course, to earn a living all of us sometimes have to
work in bourgeois publications! But Messrs. Martov and
Dan have made a “demonstration” of it! Plekhanov, too, is in that disgraceful
place! [2]

I shall be glad to send you the credential of a delegate:
do you want it to be legal (how?) or illegal? [3]

All the best, Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See p. 276 of this volume.— Ed .

[2]
The work of L. Martov, F. Dan and G. Plekhanov in Sovremennik .

[3]

V. Karpinsky was delegated to the Vienna International Congress
of the Second International (which was not held).