19/IX.

Dear Alexander! We received your letters with news of the good progress of transport and were extremely delighted by them. Regarding literature in Vardø, please try to preserve and save everything — send us complete sets of *Proletarii* and *Vperëd*, pamphlets (old ones, from 1905) we will also use; they are worth sending to Russia once transport becomes possible at all. 185

I read the news of the "dissolution" of the Duma yesterday in foreign newspapers. 186 It is clear that the reaction is either frightened by the bloc of the left, or is speculating on some "military" chances (or on a separate peace?). Our attitude toward revolutionary chauvinists (like Kerensky and part of the Social Democratic liquidators or patriots), in my opinion, cannot be expressed by the formula: "support."