V. I.

Lenin

491

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

I am sending you MSS. with slips of notes concerning your article (it
is shockingly lengthy. Im-pos-sible...) and with cuts in Varin’s (he
gave me the right to cut “non-war passages” and generalities. I
think it could do with some more cuts).

It looks like it’s going to be something measureless. It’s ghastly. I
don’t know what to do. Yet something has still to be written about
opportunism (I have 1/2 of it ready), about defeatism and about Trotskyism (including the Duma
group+P.S.D.). [2]

Figure out as quickly and accurately as possible how much we
already have.

I returned to you the Italian cuttings, as far as I remember. If I
didn’t, I must have left them in Zurich, and won’t get them until I return.

Re Bukharin & Co., we should send round to the groups (+Radek??) a
confidential letter by the Editorial Board of the C.O. concerning its
refusal (for Bukharin & Co. are obviously “retailing” already). Or
should we wait a week or so? As for Radek, if he wants to have “our”
version, let him send you theirs.

If Ryabovsky is
Stark, [3] then we should wait for James’s reply. For there have been suspicions both in regard to Stark and Miron. (Myron, as Kamenev
and Malinovsky said, all but confessed to an ugly police affair.)

Salut!
Lenin

P.S. You are right not to trust Bukharin.

Is the enclosed “tab” what you want? [1]
Return it.