Comrade Manucharyants! I received No. 11 of *Smena Vekh* from Uanshlikht a week ago already.

Evidently, Gosizdat, if Nos. 8 and 9 are from them, is a model of idiotic red tape.

Check how they are receiving it; who is handling this matter at their end. He needs to be removed.

Write on my behalf to Kamenev, Zinoviev, and Uanshlikht:
how (by post? what address? through a special person? where is this person?) are they receiving *Smena Vekh* and
similar materials.

I must receive them in a timely manner.

24/I. Lenin

Written 24 January 1922

First published in 1959 in *Leninskii Sbornik* XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript