Date: 1917
Source: ru:PSS/v51

# G. E. ZINOVIEV

Source: CW vol 51

Comrade Zinoviev!

I am sending you the preface to "Imperialism"**.

Please arrange to reprint the Basel Manifesto of 1912 as an appendix. (It should not be difficult to find the German text: after all, you have Grinberg's "archive" and the like.)
I received your theses on the Soviets and the conditions for their creation, but I only had time to skim through them. I do not object.

7/VII. Greetings! Lenin
What about my speeches and reports at the congress? 262 Do they need to be prepared in German or French? I a-

* Refers to V. I. Lenin's book "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" (see Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 27, pp. 299-426). Ed.

** See V. I. Lenin. Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 27, pp. 303-308. Ed.