V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v37;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

[End of March 1916]

1) Send in the Russian issue and send the proofs.
We will bring it out immediately, entirely in Russian. Send the distribution and size of the articles.

2) Regarding *Kommunist* now (I am sending another letter to K—please return it), I think you will see that you were wrong. Our proposal about the Central Committee Alexander—responsibility; to show and prove that they came out as a faction.

3) Alexander’s letter is extremely important.
It is clear that the gossip of the “woman”...
Is it worth inviting him here? I am hesitating. It is already late. It is already hopeless (for even Kollontai is against hm! hm! NB nota bene!!). Would it not be better to try to send someone to Russia? But whom? Lyudmila?
This must be thought over more carefully.

4) “Not for a million” a bloc with *Nashe Slovo*, etc., in transport. I fully agree with you.

5) I, too, do not want my reply to Bukharin to go beyond the circle you indicated.
Only to Papa...

6) Radek is liquidating the Bureau of the Left. If he is for peace, let him send our theses to Knief...
Formally we have not violated the bloc in any way, nor in substance. The proposal from the C.C. does not exclude a compromise on the bloc of the Zimmerwald Left. If Radek gives the theses on Saturday, send them at once so that I may have them on Sunday morning.

7) Should we give money to I.S.D.? Radek, wieviel* and then we will discuss it.

8) I am returning Alexander’s letter.
What is to be done with this letter? Are you to answer it alone, or am I to answer it too?
Did he ask you not to show it to me?
If you write, you must think it over very carefully. I advise you to attack the “woman” with all your might: all the gossip comes from her.
That is the end; the matter is clear.

9) The five secretaries are playing a double game. Here Martov... have left the group of the *Nashe Slovo* people. Martov read in it his statement about his resignation from the editorial board of *Nashe Slovo*!!
In my opinion, tell Veis... if “your people” break in practice also with “Self-Defence”... Chkheidze, then we shall be glad to unite!!

10) An issue on “self-determination”?
Would it not be better to wait for No. 2 of *Vorbote*... Radek’s and K... O?
In my opinion, it would be better. Let us send the theses to the printer, then wait for Radek’s theses (perhaps you will get them in proof?) and immediately after *Vorbote* our issue. That would be better.
Will Radek refuse to show you his counter-theses?

11) Will Radek agree to give us full pages in *Vorbote* (No. 2) for our theses? And what is the deadline?
I shall propose another 2-3 additions.

Salut. Lenin

P.S. I am very sorry about the nerves, that I caused you unpleasantness. My nerves are in a frightful state.*