V. I.

Lenin

To:   V. A. KARPINSKY

April 12, 1917

Dear Friend, I hope that this letter will all the same reach you, and
also the newspapers which are being sent to you. I say “all
the same” because the difficulties of communication with
foreign countries are incredibly great. We were allowed in,
and received here with furious attacks, but up till now we
have received no books, manuscripts or letters. Evidently
the military censorship is working wonderfully—even with
excessive zeal, since yon know, of course, that we had not
even the slightest mention of the war, and could not have.

Please stop typing the agrarian manuscript, because I have found one copy here, already set. What is missing in
it is the end, the end of the “Conclusion”, [1] beginning with
the words:

“ The whole of the peasantry and the proletariat are opposed to the private ownership of the land. The reformative
path of creating a Junker-bourgeois Russia necessarily presupposes the preservation of the foundations of the old system
of landownership and the slow....”

Now, from these words the end of the Conclusion is missing.

You will oblige me very much if from these words , and to
the end of the Conclusion, you take 4–5 copies and send them
(1) to me personally; (2) to Pravda , 32 Moika; (3) to
Stockholm, to the address given to you. I ought to receive at least
one of these copies.

Drop me a postcard, addressed to Pravda , or better still
to M. T. Yelizarov (for V. I.), 48/9 Shirokaya, Flat 24, Petrograd, whether yon have received this letter, and when
yon sent the copies of the end of the Conclusion.

Our journey was wonderful, flatten was not admitted by
Milyukov.

The atmosphere here is a furious campaign of the bourgeoisie against us. Among the workers and soldiers —sympathy.

Among the Social-Democrats, victory of “revolutionary defencism” (now, they say, there is something to defend—the
Republic, against Wilhelm). Chkheidze and Co., Steklov (leaders of the Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies in
Petrograd) have completely descended into revolutionary
defencism. Chkheidze is in a bloc with Potresov. All are
howling and screaming for “unity” of the whole Russian
Social-Democratic Labour Party. We, of course, are against.

On April 22, 1917 there will be an All-Russia Conference
of the Bolsheviks (of our Party) in
Petrograd. [2]

Write me whether our “Farewell Letter” has been published, in what languages and how sales are going.

Write whether you have received the papers (I am sending you a file of Pravda and cuttings from various papers).
Keep Paris and all Switzerland as well informed as possible.
All the best.

Yours,
V. Ulyanov