V. I.

Lenin

292

To:   G. I. MYASNIKOV

1/VIII.

Comrade Myasnikov:

I read your article, which Bukharin passed on to me, only today, and very cursorily.

I should like to have a talk with you. I hope to be in
Moscow one of these days and find time for a half-hour talk with you.

The beginning of your article is good and business-like.

But there are some obvious errors in your conclusions.

Perhaps there is some misunderstanding: it looks as if you hare failed to say in the article what you had told
N. I. Bukharin. What sort of “freedom of the press” do
you want? Under the law? For workers too—S.R.s and
Mensheviks? Just now? The article does not make it clear. [1]

Drop me a line.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to G. I. Myasnikov’s article “Vexed Questions”,
written on July 27, 1921. In a letter to Myasnikov on August 5, 1921,
Lenin sharply criticised his views (see present edition, Vol. 32,
pp. 504–09).