V. I.

Lenin

502

To:   M. M. KHARITONOV

Dear Comrade, Nadya is giving you a secret meeting place, password and ways of
communicating with us for
Marcu. [2]

Let him ask a French- or German-speaking person to come to Petrograd
(through the secret address) and tell him in greatest possible detail all the foreign news about the movement of the Lefts ,
about Vorbote No.  1 and No.  2 , about our disputes on disarmament (I am sending my
article [1]

;

show it to him—incidentally, write me where Nobs is ), about the
German
Arbeiterpolitik , [3] about the arrests in Germany, about
Longuet and the Longuetists in France, about the arrest of Maclean in
England, and generally all about the movement of the Lefts and
internationalists in Europe and America in greater detail?

Then let him offer his services (there, in Petrograd) to call on the
way at Moscow, Kiev, Odessa (where he is travelling) for the same purpose
and for passing on the address for letters to us.

Teach him ( thoroughly ) to write with invisible ink and to
maintain the strictest secrecy in Russia: he must act the
part of a soldier who is going to Rumania to fight, and stick to that!

We don’t know yet when we shall be back. Probably not before a
fortnight.

Greetings, Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Nobs will correct the language himself . — Lenin

[2]
This refers to Valeriu Marcu, a Rumanian Social-Democrat who lived in
Switzerland during the war. In 1916 he went to Paris, Moscow and Rumania on
Lenin’s errand.

[3]
Arbeiterpolitik —a weekly devoted to questions of scientific
socialism, organ of the Bremen group of Left Radicals headed by Johann
Knief and Paul Fröhlich. The group joined the Communist Party of Germany
in 1919. The journal was published in Bremen from 1916 to 1919.

After the October Revolution the journal devoted considerable space to
information about life in Soviet Russia.

The reference below is to Shlyapnikov’s article “Workers’ Russia
During Twenty Months of War” published later in Sbornik No. 1.