V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v21;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

LETTER TO L. A. IOFFE

2) ten times more enrolment in the army.
We must have an army of 3 million by the spring to help the international work[ers’] revolution.*
This resolution must be telegraphed to the whole world on Wednesday night.²
Appoint a meeting for Wednesday at 2 p.m. We shall begin at 1, give me the floor for ¾ hour for an introductory speech, I shall come and go back.* Tomorrow morning send a car for me (and over the telephone say only: a g r e e d).
Greetings! Lenin.
¹ The main points outlined by Lenin in the printed letter are fully reflected in the resolution adopted on October 3, 1918, at the joint session of the Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and workers’ organisations (Pravda No. 213, October 4, 1918).
*
The resolution adopted at the joint session was telegraphed “to the whole world” on October 3, 1918.

The joint session of the Central Executive Committee, the Moscow Soviet and workers’ organisations was held on Thursday, October 3, 1918. At the session Lenin’s letter on the German revolution was read (Works, Vol. XXIII, pp. 215–17). Lenin was not present at the session owing to illness.

LETTER TO A. A. IOFFE¹
18-X-1918
7ob. Ioffe!
Please send me that issue of Soz[ialistische] Auslandspolitik which contained Martov’s article on the dictatorship.²
Such things should be sent at once.
Also—newspaper clippings (instead of the illegible summary) of everything relating to the split with the soc[ial]-chauvinists and the Kautskyites (with translation into German from the Dutch and Scandinavian languages).
We ought to play the part of a bureau for ideological work of an international character, and we are doing nothing!!
We must publish a hundred times more. There is money. Hire translators. And we are doing nothing! It’s a scandal...
Please send this letter to Vorovsky as well, and hand the enclosure to the proper person.³
Yours, Lenin.