V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v48;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

ENCYCLOPAEDIA

OF THE GRANAT BROTHERS PUBLISHING HOUSE

Dear Colleague, A few days ago, despairing of the possibility of finishing the work, I sent you my refusal together with an apology.* Now, however, the political circumstances on which I am so greatly dependent have suddenly changed again radically: firstly, the state of extraordinary security in St. Petersburg, which I read about today in the Russian newspapers, has been introduced until September 4, 1914, evidently meaning the suspension until then of the newspaper in which I was writing; secondly, the war will evidently suspend a number of urgent political affairs that have been burdening me. Therefore, I could now undertake to continue the article on Marx I have begun and would probably manage to finish it soon. If you have not yet commissioned another person and have not committed another author, please reply to me by telegram (at my expense): Uljanow. Poronin. Rabotaite.

If you have already committed another person, please reply by postcard.

Accept the assurance of my complete respect, V. Ilyin

in the 4th edition of the Collected Works

* See present volume, pp. 324-325. Ed.

TO G. L. SHKLOVSKY. JULY 31, 1914

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Written on July 28, 1914

Sent to Moscow

First published in 1950

V. I. Lenin, Volume 35

Printed from the manuscript