V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v13;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — V. A. KARPINSKY
TO GENEVA.
[Later than May 19, 1914. Poronin.]¹

Dear Friend, Many thanks for Volume I of Rubakin. I am returning it to you [in a few days] shortly. If urgent, drop me a line. I am very glad that you do not sympathise with Sovremennik: it is a filthy enterprise, a bloc of two scoundrels, the liquidators and the Narodniks, and we shall give it a thorough drubbing (Mr. Stankevich invited me; I replied: “Being in fundamental disagreement, I must decline to collaborate”).

Of course, for the sake of earning a living we all sometimes have to work for bourgeois [editorships] publications! But Messrs. Martov and Dan have staged a “demonstration”!! And Plekhanov too in that disgraceful place!²

I shall gladly send you a certificate regarding your delegate status: censored (how?) or illegal??³

I press your hand
Yours,
Lenin