V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v54; en:CW/CW45;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

FOR THE POLITBURO OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

15/IV.
Comrade Stalin (for the Politburo)
Copy to Comrade Trotsky
” ” Comrade Kamenev
” ” M. N. Pokrovsky

I have just received the book *Materials on the History of Franco-Russian Relations for 1910-1914*.

This tome of 733 pages has been published with that shameless, truly Soviet slovenliness for which people ought to be put in jail. There is no price. There is no signature of the person or persons responsible.

There is no index!! A simple list of names has been compiled carelessly. And so on.

I propose:

1) to instruct Ganetsky and Karakhan to find, within two days, all persons responsible for the publication;

2) also to stop the sale of the book;

3) to prepare a slip for insertion indicating what is missing;

4) to prepare a proper index; in a word, to submit to the C.C. by Thursday* a brief report on all the outrages—defects of the publication—and on ways of correcting them.

Lenin

P.S. In the “Preface”—unsigned!!—M. N. Pokrovsky is mentioned, but it is clear that he, who worked on collecting the material, is not responsible for the publication, for its technical side. 389