Dear Zina!

I saw in the *Berner Tagwacht*323 and heard that your report in Olten was very well received. *Ich gratuliere!* Perhaps it would be possible to set forth the main points briefly for our *Collection of the Social-Democrat*, if you wanted to write on the same theme?

We are in an awful position: we didn't calculate the exact dimensions of the articles in advance, they have swollen tremendously, we haven't been able to "slim down," and now we face the prospect of a thick tome—the least convenient thing for propaganda work from abroad.

Jot down a couple of words about your theme and whether you could compress yourself into 4-5 pages of our large format (you have it in the proofs, and it shouldn't be difficult for you to count exactly).

Jot down.

*Beste Grüße* and greetings to Stepka, who by now must have grown so much that I won't be able to toss him to the ceiling!

1916

in Gärtenstein (Switzerland)

in the journal

Written after June 27

Sent from Zurich

First published in 1929

*Krasnaya Letopis* No. 4

Printed from the manuscript