V. I.

Lenin

Dear Zina, I read in Berner Tagwacht and heard that your lecture
at Olten was a great success. Ich gratuliere! [1]

Perhaps you could write a brief summary of the main points for our Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata , if you were going to write on the
same subject? We are in a terribly difficult situation: we
failed to calculate beforehand the exact size of the articles,
we have “swollen up” out of all proportion, we have not been
able to “unload ”, and are now faced with the prospect of a
great big volume, which is least convenient for propaganda
from abroad.

Drop me a few words about your subject, and about whether you could, without detriment to the subject , confine
yourself to 4–5 pages of our large size (you have it in the
proofs, and you will probably not find it too hard to calculate precisely).

Write.

Beste Grüsse , especially to Styopka, who must have grown
so that I won’t be able to toss him up to the ceiling!

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Notes:
[1]
Congratulations.— Ed .