V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v13;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek deepseek-v4-pro) from the Russian; AI-translated.

V. I. LENIN — TO V. M. KASPAROV

BERLIN.

[After
July 18, 1914. Poronin.]¹

Dear Friend,

I earnestly request you to take upon yourself the task of keeping us informed during the revolutionary days in Russia.²

We are without newspapers.

I ask you:

1) to send us daily (by simple printed-matter post) the Berlin newspapers with the biggest news from Russia (Vorwärts, or perhaps even better the Berliner Tageblatt*—choose whichever has more telegrams from Russia).

2) also the Russian newspapers from Petersburg and Moscow (we have only Kievskaya Mysl)—Rech, Novoye Vremya (from the beginning of the July days)...

3) telegrams about particularly, exceptionally important events, if such occur, like an uprising in the army, etc.

Address for everything (and for telegrams): Uljanow (only two words:) Poronin.

We shall pay the expenses. Write at once by postcard whether you will undertake it (I hope you will not refuse) and how much money to send.

(The postal and telegraph tariff here is the same as inside Germany.)

So I await your reply.

Yours,
Lenin

P.S. Please send [also clippings from Vorwärts about everything relating to the Brussels] conference of July 16–18, 1914, and to the “bloc” there (Rosa + Plekhanov + Alexinsky + the liquidators, etc.).

¹ The date is based on the contents: the letter was written after the conclusion of the Brussels meeting, which took place on July 16–18, 1914. The revolutionary events Lenin speaks of occurred in July.
² By “revolutionary days in Russia” Lenin means the days of strikes and demonstrations that took place in St. Petersburg, Baku, Riga, and elsewhere during July 1914.

* — Berlin daily newspaper. — Ed.