15/X. 1918.

Comrade Berzin,

Dear Comrade! I received from you, as always, a scattered collection of foreign newspapers (couldn’t you commission someone to make clippings: (a) everything about Russia; (b) everything about the socialist parties of all countries).

From them I see, among other things, that Graber and Grimm have stupidly and basely attacked Guilbeaux.

How could you perceive anything bad in his taking of money? I do not understand.

One cannot censure a valuable comrade without a formal examination of the case!? Which members of the party (appointed by you) examined the case? Nobody! And from Guilbeaux’s data and from the decision of the Geneva commission, the case is clearer than clear in Guilbeaux’s favour.

NB: Send me: Longuet. “La politique internationale du marxisme. Karl Marx et la France”. Vandervelde. “L’Etat et le socialisme” and all pamphlets of a similar kind in French, German, English and Italian, all, all, all!

Also: “La Russie socialiste” (Left Socialist-Revolutionaries), see “La Feuille” (Geneva) 193, 3.X.1918. I think the Left S.R.s have lied terribly here. You must immediately commission (at least from Leiteizen) a compilation from “Pravda” and “Izvestia” against the lies of the Left S.R.s (and also from “Znamya Trudovoi Kommuny” and “Volya Truda”). Pierre Loti. “Quelques aspects du vertige mondial”, Paris (Flammarion). Leon Frapie. “Les contes de la guerre” (ibid.).

I have just received from Sverdlov a set of your publications (it wouldn’t be a sin to send that set to me as well).

Not enough! Not enough!! Not enough!!!

Hire a group of translators and publish 10 times more. Peluso can (and must) write 3 pamphlets a week (on all subjects, compilations from our newspapers – you provide the subjects and a list of articles to be compiled). His article in “Droit du Peuple” (“Counter-revolutionaries”) is good. Pay him well and publish 10 times more. (Translators must be hired to publish in 4 languages: French, German, English and Italian. You have nothing in the last two. A scandal! A scandal!!)
You have plenty of money. (Be sure to send an account of the sums you have spent.)
We shall give more and more, without counting. Write how much.

You must publish a hundred times more, leaflets of 4-8-16-32 pages in 4 languages.

Hire people for this.

NB: Collect a set of “Spartacus” (I saw No. 11, IX.1918) and republish the entire set in 4 languages. Likewise Junius and Liebknecht. Commission also a history of the struggle against social-chauvinism in England, France, Germany, Italy. Form groups for this (Gorter, Balabanova + ? + ?? and so on).

Yours, Lenin

P.S. On what is your optimism concerning revolution in the Entente countries based? Facts? Considerations? If necessary, cipher it, but write more precisely.

If you are ill, get serious treatment and do not leave the sanatorium. Communicate by telephone, and send a deputy for visits.