Yuriev

April 25.

I received your letter.

Please send us as soon as possible a precise account of how many suitcases you had and what kind, how many departed and how many remained. This is necessary for us to compile our report and financial estimate. Regarding literature, I have also long been asking you to write exactly how much and what you received and where and how you used it.

We do not have the May leaflet (NB).

The money (100 Mr.) has already been sent; I repeat more urgently the request to obtain money in Berlin and other places for the suitcases: this would render us the most serious and most necessary assistance. How much of your own money is in the till? What is its usual (and current) monthly turnover?

"The Kharkov Days" would be very important to send south as soon as possible, where they are very much in demand.

Regarding the bulletin I did not entirely understand you. 1) Does the "Group for the Advancement of Iskra" or the "Neutral Group" want to publish it?109 2) Bulletins of the same type as before, or different ones? We find that it would be extremely irrational to expend resources on bulletins of the old type, and for our part we find ourselves unable to promise raw material for the reason that there is now intensive work underway to transform Iskra into a monthly newspaper,110 and for correspondence and sending raw material we have neither time nor means.

We must think not about fragmenting the available material into bulletins and weakening both its significance and the impression it makes by distributing it in raw form abroad, but rather, on the contrary, we must think about concentrating all material in Iskra and about accelerating its publication with processed and properly presented raw material. Any other tactic would mean not a struggle against the present ideological wavering and disarray, but a contribution to it.

It is not surprising that the "Neutral Group," with its absurd composition and program, published such bulletins, but from the "Group for the Advancement of Iskra" we would expect work more coordinated with us and more rational. Try to convey (rather than read in full, since I write only for you) these considerations to your group and convince them, and report their decision to us.

Bulletins with a survey of foreign press about Russia—that is another matter. They are of course useful. Send us clippings from Rus-

S. I. RADCHENKO. APRIL 1901.

sian newspapers. Would it not also be possible to supply the editorial office of Iskra with Russian journals after they have been read in Berlin? If this is possible, then inform us which journals we might count on (we have some things, but not many).

Written April 25, 1901

Sent from Munich to Berlin

First published in 1928 in Lenin Miscellany VIII

Printed from the manuscript