V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v51
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

To Kamenev

1. The greatest attention must be devoted to collecting English literature proving that trade agreements with the Soviet republics are more profitable for the English bourgeoisie than the unprofitable and even ruinous attempts to suppress them. Such literature must be collected for us and, in addition, we must discuss with knowledgeable people whether it would not be advisable to hire, as an extra, a kind of literary bureau or agency for publishing such pamphlets, delivering lectures, distributing them, etc. You, of course, know whom to consult about this in the first place.

2. Through special people, systematic collection, purchase (sparing no money) and dispatch to us in five copies of books, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, especially in English, but also in other languages, on questions of the latest economics must be organised. Keynes’s book, *The Economic Consequences of the Peace*, may serve as a model. Publications of this kind must be collected systematically.

3. The same thing, but only through special people, must be done for the collection and dispatch to us in twenty copies of periodicals of every kind, especially pamphlets and minutes, in the following four trends: (1) communist, (2) centrist (such as, for example, the Independent Labour Party in England), (3) anarchist or near-anarchist, (4) syndicalist, and the like.

4. All this must be properly arranged by notarial contract, necessarily through a person who must be an English citizen and not a communist.

5. I personally ask you to send me: (1) good, up-to-date reference books and summary statistical publications, geographical, political and economic, especially in English and French, which are easier to obtain in London, and (2) two good thermos flasks.

Lenin