V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

AND TO YE. A. PREOBRAZHENSKY AND N. I. BUKHARIN

To the State Publishing House and Comrades Preobrazhensky, Bukharin

Both in our newspapers and in the foreign press (not only Communist, but also bourgeois newspapers of various countries) a gigantic amount of material is accumulating every week, especially on the foreign policy of the Entente.

This material (see also the *Bulletin of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs*) is being wasted as far as international Communist agitation is concerned, and it is extremely valuable.

I propose that a commission be set up to collate this material and to publish small pamphlets every month.

Contents: facts of the foreign policy of the Entente (plunder; wars; uprisings; financial strangulation).

The number of copies—the smallest possible, for the main purpose is translation into other languages.

A sub-commission of several professors should (under strict control) collect
everything of value, especially from the bourgeois newspapers (which give away their “rivals” best of all).

A commission of Party comrades will read the professors’ manuscripts and correct them and make the professors correct them.

Newspapers get lost; the pamphlets will be preserved and will help our comrades abroad.

I request your opinion.

August 8, 1920.

Lenin