V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v50;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

October 25, 1918

Comrade Berzin

Dear Comrade B.!

What is this story about the expulsion of Hertzog?*

I think we must speak up for him. After all, those who expelled him are scum, opportunists.

* The signatures of Y. M. Sverdlov and J. V. Stalin, written in V. I. Lenin’s hand, follow. Ed.

** The document is also signed by Chairman of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee Y. M. Sverdlov. The phrase “Indicate persons responsible for execution” was also written by him. Ed.

*** This refers to the expulsion of Jakob Hertzog from the Social-Democratic Party of Switzerland. Ed.

Write about this.

I hope you have liquidated the “affair” of Guilbeaux in the sense that you fully recognise him as rehabilitated. Give him my regards. Where is he?

When will the French edition of “The State and Revolution” appear? 205 Will I have time to write a preface against Vandervelde?

Send me: Vandervelde. “Le Socialisme contre l’Etat”; “La Belgique envahie et le Socialisme international”; “Trois aspects de la revolution russe”*. All three published by Berger-Levrault, Paris, 5-7, rue des Beaux-Arts**.

Please collect all such pamphlets (English, French, Italian, German).

Keep me informed more often about France. What is happening there? How are things there?

Greetings! Yours, Lenin