Dear Comrade Michel! If you insist, I agree. As soon as the commission meeting in which I am participating ends (I hope in 30-40 minutes), I shall be glad to speak with you and all the other comrades here, if you do not object.

Written between June 22 and July 3

Source: PSS vol. 52

1921

First published in 1961 in the journal "Questions of the History of the CPSU" no. 1

Translated from the French

Printed from a photocopy of V. I. Lenin's manuscript