V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v2;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

26.

Dear Alexandra Mikhaylovna, I shall be very sorry if your trip to America falls through definitely. We had built no small hopes on this trip—both for the publication in America of our pamphlet (“Socialism and War”; you will receive it in a day or two), and for establishing connections with the publisher Charles Kerr* in Chicago generally, and for uniting the internationalists, and finally for financial assistance, which is so extremely necessary for all those urgent matters in Russia of which you write (and rightly stress their urgency in connection with the desirability of our being closer to Russia: the obstacles to this are, first of all, financial, and secondly, police obstacles: is it possible to travel safely...).

If the question of the trip has been finally decided by you in the negative, try to think over whether you could (through relations with Charles Kerr, etc.) help us to publish our pamphlet in English.

This is possible only in America.

We are sending you the German edition of our pamphlet. Do everything possible to sell it in the Scandinavian countries (it is devilishly important for us to recover at least part of the expenses on it, for otherwise we cannot publish it in French!).

Write more in detail, more concretely, and more often (if you are not going to America) about what exactly are the concrete questions that are arising in Russia, who raises them, how, in what cases, under what circumstances. All this would be extremely important for the publication of leaflets—a matter of urgent necessity, you are right. About the conference of the Lefts. 2)

A. Kollontai.

[September 1915]