To I. F. Armand
И. Ф. АРМАНД. 25 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1917 г.
Date: 1917-02-19
Source: ru:PSS/v49
Translated by: AI (Claude)

...of the "Sotsial-Demokrat" Miscellany with Bukharin's article and with my analysis of his small errors and Kautsky's enormous lying and vulgarization of Marxism.

Nadya is ill: she caught bronchitis and is lying with a fever. Apparently, she will have to lie for a while. Today I called the doctor.

Well, and what about your trip to La Chaux-de-Fonds? Have you completely abandoned this idea and all plans in general regarding French-Swiss work? It should not be abandoned.

Here affairs, as I wrote, are not great, but still today we finished leaflet No. 1 ("Swiss group of Zimmerwald lefts"). We shall see what comes of it!

If not now, then in general (i.e. a little later) we will succeed (I am sure) - if not we, then our successors - in creating a left direction in Switzerland. The soil for this exists!

Did you read the proposals of the lefts at the congress of the Zurich cantonal party in Toss 11.II.1917? in "Volksrecht"? Not bad after all, eh?

All best greetings and a firm handshake. Excuse the scrawl on the last page: they are hurrying me.

Your Lenin to Clarens (Switzerland)

Written February 19, 1917
Sent from Zurich
First published in 1949 in the journal "Bolshevik" No. 1
Printed from the manuscript