V. I.

Lenin

509

To:   G. Y. ZINOVIEV

1) On the question of the “commissioned” article, you are wrong in
trying to exonerate yourself. You couldn’t help noticing that I was
extra-careful to avoid any sharply worded expression of displeasure in my
first letter (which you have not answered).

I wrote nothing about bad faith: omission, too, is a mild, and not
harsh expression, which includes simple forgetfulness and inattentiveness,
and these are far removed from bad faith, Why this exaggeration, this talk
about “bad faith”?

Where, in my own hand, have I written about 5 pages? Send it to me, if
you are not yet persuaded that you were wrong.

2) About
Franz, [2] we quite agree with you (both Nadya and myself): it seems
worse at first than afterwards.

3) I am sending you two draft of a letter to
N. I. [1]

I shall not object to making it more polite: send corrections and
additions, if you consider them necessary. [3]

Best regards, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
See present edition, Vol. 35, pp. 230–31.— Ed .

[2]
This refers to Franz Koritschoner’s article “From the Life of Austrian
Social-Democracy” (published in No. 2 of Sbornik Sotsial-Demokrata ).

[3]
In the draft letter written by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 35,
pp. 230–31) Zinoviev introduced a number of corrections and changed the
concluding part. For Lenin’s attitude to these corrections see documents
514 and 515 in this volume and Vol. 35, pp. 228–29. Lenin’s correspondence
with Zinoviev and Bukharin concerning Bukharin’s article “A Contribution
to the Theory of the Imperialist State” was published in 1932 in the
journal Bolshevik No. 22.