V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v39;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTE TO I. I. SKVORTSOV-STEPANOV

Comrade Stepanov! How can you send such things even to the printer?? This is terrible!

You must either redo it yourself, or find someone to entrust the revision to (I have no time), or else not print it.

After revision, show it to Chicherin and to me*.

27.XII [1920]

Yours, Lenin

* This refers to V. I. Lenin’s report on concessions at the R.C.P.(B.) group of the Eighth All-Russia Congress of Soviets on December 21, 1920. The report was printed as a pamphlet in December. The galley proofs of the pamphlet were read by V. I. Lenin (see Collected Works, Vol. 42, pp. 91–127).

Written on the back of a letter from G. V. Chicherin, which also bears Lenin’s notes: “To Comrade Stepanov,” “See overleaf.”

I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov was a prominent Party and Soviet statesman and a Marxist writer. He joined the Party in 1896. After the October Socialist Revolution he was the first People’s Commissar for Finance of the Soviet Republic. In 1920 he was Deputy Chairman of the Editorial Board of the State Publishing House.