V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v49; en:CW/CW35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

11/I. 1916.

Dear Alexei Maximovich,

I am sending you, to the address of *Letopis*, but not for *Letopis*, but for the publishing house, the manuscript of a pamphlet with a request to publish it.\(^{209}\)

I have tried to set forth as popularly as possible the new data on America, which, in my conviction, are particularly suitable for popularising Marxism and for providing it with a factual basis. I hope I have succeeded in presenting these important data clearly and intelligibly for the new strata of the reading public, which are increasing in Russia and stand in need of an elucidation of the world’s economic evolution.

I should like to continue and later publish a second part—on Germany.

I am settling down to work on a pamphlet on imperialism.\(^{210}\)

Owing to war-time conditions I am in extreme need of earnings, and therefore I would ask you, if it is possible and not too much trouble for you, to expedite the publication of the pamphlet.

Respectfully yours, V. Ilyin

Address: Mr. Wl. Oulianoff. Seidenweg. 4-a. B e r n e (Suisse).