V. I.

Lenin

311

To:   V. A. KARPINSKY

January 20, 1922

Comrade Karpinsky, Would you not write to me briefly (two-three pages
maximum)

how many letters come from the peasants to
Bednota [1] ?

what is important (particularly important) and new in these letters?

Their moods?

The topical subjects?

Could I not once in two months receive such letters (the
next by March 15, 1922)?
α) average number of letters β) moods γ) most important topical
subjects.

With communist greetings, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Bednota (The Poor)—daily peasant newspaper published in
Moscow from March 27, 1918 to February 1, 1931, when it was merged
with Sotsialisticheskoye Zemledeliye (Socialist Agriculture).